May 5, 2008 – Milford Sound Cruise
Weather: Beautiful (fine as they say here) and about 6C.
As a footnote to yesterdays comments about the Croydon Aircraft Co. I wanted to comment that in the shop there was a bright red Beechcraft Staggerwing biplane having it’s annual inspection. It was also there last year at this time having last year’s annual done. The interesting part is that the owner is an American and a retired airline pilot in his early 70’s. He is going to fly it back to the States by way of Europe and take 2 to 3 years to do it. Would that be an adventure or what?
Today we went on the Milford Sound Cruise. The bus picked us up at the campground at 9:30AM for the ride to Milford Sound which takes about 2 hours. It sure is better on the bus than driving the motor homes out there. Then we take the boat which includes a buffet lunch on board. This trip the weather was beautiful with not a cloud in the sky. Coming back in the Sound we saw a lot of dolphins, probably 30 or 40. We had never seen them on the trip before. No fur seals this time though.
Joan Searching?
With the weather so nice a lot of the charter planes were flying in and out of the Milford Sound airport. The planes looked so small flying along the vertical mountain faces that line the Sound. The airport is at the inside end of the Sound and it appears that there is only one chance at landing straight in. As we were leaving though it appeared that it may be possible to head into the inside end of the Sound and still be able to make a 360 degree turn and get back out. Very interesting!
Milford Sound
Life is Good.
Kiwi term of the Day: Knackered - Exhausted
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