Milford Sound & Humbolt Falls

After the Divide we continued our day, driving to Milford Sound, which is a big tourist attraction. We had to go through a 1/4 Mile tunnel that was one lane, cut through granite, there are stop lights that signal when it is time for you to drive through. Then it's down a twisty road to Milford Sound. We spend just a short time here, since we were not interested in taking a boat out into the sound, which is what most folks do, to get a view of sound from the sea.

Milford Sound

On the way back to camp we took a road out to Hollyford Track, one of the many multi-day tramps. This road, like many we have been on, is a gravel road, that followed a creek, it look more like a stream than a creek to me, with big boulders in the stream. From our visit to Franz Josef & Fox Glaciers, Holly had told me how you can tell it the water comes from a glacier, it is a light gray, and many of the streams were from glaciers.

At the end of the road, we did a 30 minute hike up to Humbolt Falls, a tall spectacular 3-tier falls. Then, it was back to camp for the evening meal, stoved top veggies, yum!

Humbolt Falls