Milford Sound and Fiordlands National Park

Milord Sound

In New Zealand they spell it Fiord not Fjord...more fitting to English phonetics?
We rented a car in Queens town...el cheapo they call it, because it has high mileage and a few scratches and dents, only $19 a day!  We headed to Fiordlands NP and some car camping.  We camped along the Eglington River for two nights and took a cruise on the famous Mildord Sound, which we got a two for one deal with our 'el cheapo' rental car!

The Sound, technically a Fiord because it was carved by glaciers, was beautiful, with soaring peaks and massive waterfalls all plunging into the sea.  The boat could practically touch the sides of the fiord  because the water was so deep, getting us close to seals and getting us wet in the waterfalls.

We hiked up Gertrude Saddle for a birds eye view of the glaciers diligent work on the granite mountains of the fiordlands over the past 200 million years, where we found glacial lakes, glacial topped mountains, alpine daisies, and the west side of the saddle plunging straight down 1000ft to the valley bellow, with a view of Milford Sound and Mt Tutoko (tallest Fiordland mountain) beyond.