Milford sound

(Two new posts ahead!)

We stayed in the Queenstown region for about 3 nights and then headed out south west to Milford sound. I had really looking forward to this part of the trip, but was also a bit worried about the weather situation. It rains 100 days per year in Milford Sound and many other days it can be very misty and cloudy. Imagine this, it rains a bit more than 600 mm of rain per year in London. In Milford Sound it rains more than 6000 mm per year. Crazy stuff. We had already booked kayaking two weeks before so we just had to cross our fingers for good fortune.

Just the car drive to Milford Sound was beyond spectacular. So pretty. Cannot describe it and nor can our camera. We drank 3 red bulls and put on party music and suddenly the 300 km drive felt like nothing from Queenstown!

We had the worlds luck with the weather. Freakin’ sunny, not a cloud on the sky and not windy at all for our whole stay there (3 nights). We discovered one thing though. Imagine that it was 24 + C during the day. The first night we woke up 6 o’clock in the morning feeling like what Jack and Kate probably felt went Titanic sank. Soooo cold. Close to minus degrees. We learned our lesson for the other two nights and went to bed with two pants, a shirt and a jumper.

The kayaking was spectacular. We saw seals in the water next to us and on the cliffs. Our guide Ollie, a funny mustache Kiwi man, says there are seldom dolphins in these waters only once per month or so. Suddenly we saw some activities like 2 km away and we paddled our way towards the tumbling in the water. Around 8-9 dolphins were playing there and they got very curious of us. One really cool moment was when a dolphin just came underneath our boat and, because the water is very clear there, I could see her cute face and everything.

To make a long story short, we are currently in Dunedin with some pretty OK internet for the first time in a week. Our car is starting to break down. Yesterday we had to start it with some jump leads that we could borrow from some friendly Germans, then again after 1 hour of drive the battery went dead again. We went to a garage to get it fixed. But now AC doesn’t work nor does the lights in the car etc etc haha. We have to return our dear Jucy on Tuesday in Christchurch, so only three more nights (!).

We had the best time in this car, even if she is getting tired now. We did not kill each other, on the contrary I must say I have very many butterflies in my stomach when I spend time with Erik. It has been great to actually spend some quality time together WITHOUT INTERNET and WITHOUT WORK. It has been great and I am so grateful that we had the opportunity to do this trip.

From Tuesday next week a new adventure begins when we do not have a car anymore. We would like to find some work for a couple of weeks, doesn’t matter if it means getting our hands dirty. Let’s see how that works out!

Cute seals!