Poor Si had to drive a long way for our next destination, Milford Sounds but it proved to be well worth the effort. We found an area to free camp beside Lake Te Anau. Si immediately began to collect fire wood for a fire, so we could stay up a little after night fall. While Si was collecting fire wood along the shore line of the Lake he found a died deer which has been half eaten by god knows what. Despite the fire and all Si's hard work to keep it going for an hour or so in the wind, I was freezing as soon as the sun went down.

During the evening there was a creature in the bushes near where we were staying that kept making extremely alarming noises, which Si simply laughed at. A few minutes after we went to bed in the Van, we heard some stranger nosies coming from more animals which started to alarm both of us. We stayed very still in bed and tried to work out what was going on, or what animals were outside our van. After about ten minutes of this going on the noises started coming from underneath the van completely freaking me out! We decided to leave the camp site in fear of what it was and what it was doing. While leaving the camp and driving along the road to find some where more suitable and more peaceful to camp Si worked out what it was. As many people know New Zealand is within the grasp of a Possum epidemic, which must of been the animals under our Van which freaked us out. Eventually we then managed to find a DOC camp site about 65 km from Milford Sounds, the town we wanted to travel to the next morning.
The drive to Milford Sound was a cross between the nurburg ring and wacky races in the rain in a Mazda Bongo, making it most stressful drive of Si's life but also highly enjoyable in parts. When we got to the small town we made our way straight for the ferry cruise terminal to book a boat to see Milford Sound as soon as possible. We managed to nab the best seats, ensuring we saw as much as possible.
We sailed about and were told about all the different facts about the sound such as tree avalanches, possible gold to be found in the area and how the sound's are formed. We sailed out if the Sound and into the Tasman Sea were we were able to see several fur seals on the rocky shore line. As we approached the mouth of the Sea it become extremely choppy, but unlike the long tail boats of Thailand we felt extremely safe on the cruiser. We made our way back along the opposite side of the Sound and were shown several of its water falls along the way. The captain of the cruiser sailed the front of the boat right into one of the waterfall, were Si and one America man stood out in the waterfall and got completely soaked in freezing cold water.
As we pulled back to the boat terminal it begin to rain again, so we made a quick dash for the safety of the Van. Si then drove back up the crazy road through the tunnel and back to the other side of the mountain, were we found another camp site for the night. Once at the camp site, Si decided he wanted to have another camp fire so went off in search for more wood. Si came back about twenty minutes later after falling into a swamp and turning his trainer from white to black. We then decided to drive the 150 km back to Te Anau and treat ourselves and say in a camp site with electric and running water, instead of another Department of Conservation (DOC) campsite.