Day 3: More of the Sound

We woke up this morning to a lovely varied breakfast consisting of everything from cold cereal and fruit to sausage, hashbrowns and eggs. As the sun peaked out from behind the clouds and mountains it burned away some of the morning fog.

As the temperature rose and the moisture in the air evaporated it produced a beautiful full rainbow.

After breakfast was cleaned away the captain started up the engine and we sailed out into the ocean for a look at the ound from a different perspective.

One of the main problems that explorers had when they first sailed past the coast of New Zealand is that it took a lot of time and energy to sail up to a piece of land and dock there. So they limited themselves to exploring only those places that looked worthy of exploration. Now picture these early explorers, sailing past the entrance to Milford Sound. From a mere few kilometres away the entrance to the sound looks like one completely solid piece of land, not only that, a solid piece of land made up of steep mountains; certainly not worth putting in the effort of going to see. It is because of this that it was many years before the Sound was discovered.