Milford Sound

Yesterday we went to Milford Sound and Fiordland National Park. Fiordland is the largest national park in New Zealand!
We stopped at Mirror Lakes on the way which was pretty, but definitely not anything close to as pretty as other things we have seen here. We've been so spoiled! We took a boat cruise on Milford Sound for a few hours and it was AMAZING! We saw huge waterfalls, and when I say huge I'm talking ridiculously huge & coming from all sorts of directions off the rocks. We also saw seals (so cute) For a while it looked like we were looking onto an ocean horizon! Towards the end of the boat cruise we all geared up in our waterproof gear and got towards the very end of the boat and we cruised under the huge waterfall and purposely got soaked! It was a blast.
After Milford Sound all I wanted to do was sleep because we went out the night before and hadn't slept much. I fell asleep then they woke us to stop for a "quick hike" that we didn't know about. We were all grumpy at this point haha. It really was quick though and we saw a Chasm. It was so cool looking! Basically a waterfall but different. I don't know how to explain it so look up chasm. Then we got back on the bus and I fell back asleep and we stopped on the side of the road to see a Kea which is a nearly extinct bird here, we opted to not get off but we ended up seeing one at a nature center today. Fell back asleep and stopped again for another little walk! We were all extremely tired at this point and just wanted to get back! When we got back we went to the store and we grilled out. Dinner was good, then we were going to go out but we were so tired and had a lot of essays that are due Friday and wanted to get those started. I ended up just going to bed.... note to self- don't try to write a paper while laying bed.

Peace & Love,
Caitlin