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| Milford Sound |
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| The Old Station, Dunedin |
MILFORD SOUND & DUNEDIN
Saturday 5 March saw us entering Milford Sound on our way to visit a total of five Sounds, Milford, Thomson, Doubtful, Breaksea and Dusky. The weather was good although we had had a very rough 24 hours prior to entering the Sounds - force 8 gales and a swell of 8m and Aurora did a fair bit of dancing around! We were ok though, again no need of any medication.
The early mist and rain cleared to reveal sunshine for the greatest part of the cruise through, and when the rain came later, I changed to black and white photography!
On Sunday 6 March we docked in Port Chalmers, the port for Dunedin, South Island. It was very cold, especially having only recently been in temperatures of 35c in Sydney. It was 8c and forecast to rise to 13c! Again it was dry and reasonably sunny for our walk around the town centre. Being a Sunday there weren’t many shops open, but although we had a coffee in McDonalds, the earthquake in Christchurch had taken out a lot of broadband/wifi signals, so had to wait until I got back onto the ship, which is even slower!
The old railway station was wonderful and definitely worth a visit. Built in the Flemish Renaissance style with a majestic interior of colonnades, balustrades and mosaic paving; with so many people around difficult to photograph, so the outside was all I could manage.
It was a short visit to Dunedin having to be back on the ship by 1430; we are sailing to Wellington (having to miss out Christchurch, of course) and need the extra few hours to reach there.
Will post again tomorrow following our visit to Wellington.
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