We spent the last two days going in and out of the fiords here in NZ. The scenery is spectacular. We were so fortunate to have sunny skies during these two days. There are fourteen beautiful fiords on the west coast formed when the glaciers gouged and deepened and rounded the U - shaped valleys forming lakes and fiords.
Fiordland is the largest national park in New Zealand and one of the largest in the world. It has been recognized as one of the world's foremost natural landscapes through its inclusion in South West New Zealand World Heritage Area. Dusky Sound, Breaksea Sound, Doubtful Sound, Thompson Sound, and the Milford Sound are the ones visited by our ship in the last two days.
Milford Sound is the most spectacular one. We got up early to see the ship entering it's mouth and going inland. We met another huge ship at the end of the Sound and if you looked at this huge ship, you would see a small one instead. The mountains that were the back drop for the ship are gigantic making it look like a toy.
Our captain took the Crystal Serenity right up to within 5 to 6 feet from the Crystal falls. There were crew and passengers all over the outside decks running and grabbing their cameras in order to take great shots of the falls.
In the distance, we saw a helicopter taking photos of our ship for a brochure.
We are now in the Tasman Sea heading for Sydney Australia. So far it is a calm sea but the crew has warned us it can be very bad.
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