The road to Milford Sound

Up early and off to Milford sound. Actually quite a spectacular drive - soon headed into the mountains with views all around. Stopped off and made some breakfast at a pic nic spot and the van filled up with attacking midges grrrrr! Ate our toast dancing around and then on - really lucky with the weather though as reports say that the area gets 9 meters of rain a year!

Near to Milford Sound came to a tunnel. Stopped off to take some photos as it was pretty amazing all around. Realised that people were taking a lot of interest in our van which was odd and people were starting to take photographs which was even more odder! Went over to investigate and it turned out the was a big bird poking out from under it. Turned out to be a "Kia" and apparently you don't want them in to your vehicle as they will eat the rubber. Well as we'd blown all the midges away we shut the doors fast! Well at least we didn't run over it!

Note to self: buy insect repellant ASAP.