Jean and I were up early catching the bus to Milford Sound at 7:00am. The trip took 4.5 hours each way along with a 2.25 hour boat trip on Milford Sound. The first 2 hours were interesting looking at the Southland landscape. The NZ government is promoting recovering the bush land to productive farmland for dairy farms. Right in the middle of it all is a reserve to protect that very bush land. The reason for the reserve was because they had discovered a bird (the ...

We woke up to an overcast day which was ok as we planned to drive through to Queenstown today. Jean suggested that we have an egg/ham omelet cooked in the camp kitchen. That turned out to be a very interesting experience! In the evening yesterday, a large number of jet boats towed behind trucks and cars pulled into the campsite. While we were cooking our breakfast, all the boat guys (New Zealand's equivalent to good ole boys) came into the kitchen, fired up the b...