Wingin' It

Ok, we have officially run out of adjectives. Today, we left at 6:30am to go to Milford Sound, which is part of Fjordland (a fjord is a body of water that has been carved out by glaciers). It was a 5.5 hour bus/coach ride. We went through farm land (FYI: there are 4+ million sheep in NZ), forests, scrub land, a hand-dug tunnel, and mountains (with waterfalls). We then went on a 2 hour “cruise” of the sound. The beauty is overwhelming. We can’t describe the immensity of the rock/mountains that jut up from the water (see pix with boat in it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27117889@N08/sets/72157615257085670/ ). Then, well, we splurged….we took a plane back to Queenstown. The plane was a 7 seater, but for our trip, it was the pilot, Lynda and Kenn, and one guy from New Orleans. We frantically passed the camera back and forth between us (we each had a window) to take pictures of mountain peaks, lakes on TOP of mountain peaks, valleys, etc. We only took 128 pictures in 35 minutes! Wow! We probably will never see THAT again! We SO wish you could have been there. Love, Kenn and Lynda

P.S., As we wrote this, there were about 50 (no exaggeration) hang-gliders/para-gliders flying off the mountain behind our hotel and soaring gracefully down to some place not very far from us. Too cool!