Things CAN turn out better than you thought possible:
Minutes after I posted yesterday’s entry I received a phone call asking if I was still desperate to see Milford Sound. I could get on a flight at 9am, subject to the weather. I had to ring at 8am to confirm if the weather would allow the flight to go ahead.
Mistakenly, I figured that I could get to Mirror Lakes (58km from Te Anau), ring at 8,and get to the airport by 9.
By 7.45 I’d finished at the Lakes and headed back toward Te Anau.
At 8am I pulled over to make THE call.
(Expletive deleted) – no mobile coverage!
The Getz was spinning it’s tiny wheels and I made the call in Te Anau at 8.18. The flight was GO.
There are no photo’s from the flight – there’ll be a video after I get back home. Suffice to say that it was a magical sensory overload to fly not just over but through Fiordland, out to sea and then weave up Milford Sound above the water but below the snow line.
The plane landed and we hopped on a bus to get to the cruise terminal.
Mitre Peak is the star of the show but the others, the waterfalls and the wildlife weren’t too bad.
And the proof:
The flight back was as stunning as the flight in.
We were back in Te Anau before 1pm.
(35 minute flight; 2 minute bus trip; 2 hour cruise; 2 minute bus and a 40minute flight.)
Did I mention that the weather was the clearest, stillest, finest winter morning the pilot had seen in 10 years?
nice shots
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