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The journey to Milford Sound was fantastic...around the lake to Te Anau, then on to the great divide and the Homer Saddle.. and passed the 17km you are most likely to get an avalanche in the whole world! It was a spectacular journey with stops at the mirror lakes, k*** flat and the bottom of Homer saddle where the tunnel starts. You are surrounded by towering mountains, some topped by glaciers. We were so lucky with the weather..they get someting like 10 metres of rain in a year and Milford is renowned for its damp dreary days..but we had a day of brilliant sunshine. After the tunnel you drop from alpine scree to a temperate rainforest in less than 8 kms..a series of hairpin bends..I'm glad I wasn't driving a car, let alone a coach!!
Milford Sound was breathtaking. We went out to the Tasman sea and back, passing seals basking on a rock and a waterfall. They'd seen a pod of dolphins that morning but they'd gone by the time we arrived.
That journey meant that we crossed the 45○ line, half way between the equator and the south pole.
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