Te Anau is a lovely little town nestled on a huge lake gouged out by a massive glacier, 53km long and 417m deep. Our main reason for visiting here was that it is the main access point to get to Milford Sound. After taking a wonder along the lake and having a nosy around the town we started our drive to Milford Sound. The drive from Te Anau to Milford was just out of this world, firstly entering a patch of mountain beech forest towards the entrance of The Fiorland National park and through to Eglinton Valley. The range of peaks, valleys, rivers, lakes and rainforest throughout the whole drive was just awesome. It was late afternoon and shortly after Eglinton Valley, was the Mirror Lakes, which we really wanted to get to for sunset, as it was such a beautiful afternoon. On a clear, calm afternoon like this the lake looked awesome. It's so clear that the mountain range to the rear of the lakes is reflected in the water perfectly; therefore it's like a mirror image upside down to the mountains. We got some great photos with the red fluffy clouds and blue sky and it was a great end to a lovely day and long road trip from Invercargill. We camped up at Lake Gunn that night, a very beautiful spot. However we weren't there for long as we were using our headlights to help us cook as usual and then a couple of lads arrived and we all sat around chatting, then another guy came over to chill and we just completely forgot about the headlights still being on. After about an hour it clicked I hadn't even turned the engine on to recharge the battery and as you can imagine, the bloody engine wouldn't start. After tearing the camper to pieces trying to find the car battery (what a mission), luckily the lads had some jump wires and got the camper running again. It was a little nerve racking as if they didn't have some wires we would have been screwed. However we would have been inside the camper if we hadn't met them ha-ha, only messing it was entirely our fault. The only problem after that was that you need to keep the engine running for a good half hour before turning the engine back off so we decided to drive the rest of the 30km to Milford Sound in the dark, dodging all the Possum's. We had to pass through the Homer Tunnel 1207m long passing through one of the mountains to get to the other side. I turned our lights out in the tunnel halfway in and it was spooky as!!! The tunnel hasn't got loads of support and is more like driving through a cave, it was pretty cool. Anyway we finally reached Milford for the night and camped in the main car park up there. You're not supposed to but with our circumstances and nights events we didn't really care. It did however work out well as we were able to get on the first Milford Cruise starting at 9am and we couldn't have got a better day for it. The weather has been so good the last couple of days. Milford sound is the most visited of all the Fiordlands and is one of NZ's biggest tourist attractions, it's just incredible. The Fiord is 22km long before reaching the entrance of the Tasman Sea, and the weather scuffed cliffs and Peaks that surround it, especially Mitre Peak at 1695m is just spectacular. We had the most amazing views we could have asked for. Our cruise started of taking us down the south side of the Fiord, out to the Tasman sea and then back up the north side, passing all the points of interest such as Stirling and Bowen Falls cascading from the cliffs, where our boat got up as close as possible to the falls, soaking us!! and our camera. Our little red boat seemed like a dot when surrounded by these sheer rock faces, it really was a highlight of our trip and we would recommend it to anyone. There was informative commentary for the full 1.5 hour cruise and a complimentary continental breakfast was thrown in there as well, perfect! As we had taken one of the earliest cruises, it meant we had the whole day free to check out what we had missed coming the 30km in the dark the previous night. We headed back through the tunnel along the Cleddau canyon, gorgeous, and then back up through the Homer tunnel this time in daylight, looking a lot more impressive with a towering ice carved mountain on top of it. We stopped off to check out the quick 20 minute chasm walk further on, which was well worth the stop. It's incredible what erosion and time can achieve. The Cleddau River plunged through a load of huge rock boulders that had been eroded over time in a narrow chasm into the upper level fall, which is apparently 22 metres deep, I wasn't about to check, and then it cascaded to another waterfall under a natural rock bridge to the lower fall. Pretty impressive and only a 20 minute walk to see it, pleasing!!! There was another waterfall further down the road but we have checked so many out travelling we are trying to cut back on them, it gets a bit obsessive haha. We carried on past the start of the Hollyford track (one of the great walks of NZ and then through the divide, the lowest east-west pass in the Southern Alps. Moving onto the mirror lakes again in broad daylight was as spectacular as at sunset but you saw it in a different light. During the day the water is so clear and see through and when it was sunset the reflection was stronger but the water wasn't as clear. We're glad we got to see both though. From here it was the home straight back to Te Anau, where we booked our bungy for the next day, had another little look around and then headed for Queenstown, the home of the bungy and the adventure capital, we couldn't wait.