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this area reminded me a bit of the crows nesting pass back in alberta.
as cool as it was, i needed to keep moving. back to the road.
after those flatlands i was a little surprised to enter the fiordland forests...
i passed a sign for something called mirror lake, and as i needed to still eat (again i left without doing anything morning like) i figured it'd make for a good breakfast spot.they had the coolest bench for me to sit on and eat!
the forest around here totally reminded me of a movie... or three actually...
lord of the rings, narnia... and
they filmed part of walking with dinosaur here!!! cool!
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realizing this i took a make belief wander through the make belief mesozoic.
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how weird and cool is that!!!
the water in this lake is like glass, and reflects stuff around it.
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as i grew closer to milford i encountered my favourite spot ever!!!
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with some of the thickest forest i've ever seen...
just like the valley in doubtful sound i desperately wanted to explore to see if it WAS the lost world...
yet now i really couldn't... so onward i pushed...
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i finally approached the only entry to the milford region. the tunnel.
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how cool is that? you have to drive through a mountain to get to milford sound...
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it seems every 50 kilometres the scenery changes... i'm not complaining, but just makes even the approach to milford very memorable and rewarding.
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though with the snow and ice here in summer (at least summer here in new zealand) this sure isn't a lost paradise for dinosaurs.
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still i took a couple minutes to check it out from the car... not because i'm wasting time... rather i got eh another phone call from nature...
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there sure are a lot of waterfalls around here...
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it reminds me of doubtful sound... just no ocean between the mountains.
you sure can see the glacial carving of this area a lot more than doubtful sound (again the lack of water helps).
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after such a packed morning it was hard to believe that there was still more to go. yet i suddenly arrived at my destination. the milford sound port.
hopefully i was going to be able to check this out quick, and get out JUST as quick...
to be continued...
2 comments:
Treacherous.
It really is too bad those baskets don't contain some peanut butter and oviraptor-jelly sandwiches.
You look exhausted in some of those photos, Traumador, exhausted and elated in the one of that nifty leaf-shaped bench.
Yeah, Traumador. Don't start forgetting to eat and sleep - you have to stay sharp.
And don't get distracted by the beauty all around you either - though to be honest I don't know how you couldn't.
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