Gooday.
No photos today as the technology has let me down and my elbow hurts. The latter is not really relevant but I thought I'd mention it anway.
Its a shame about the pics as yesterday was without doubt the most photogenic day yet. We went kayaking in Milford Sound - A fiord carved out in the last ice age. It rains almost all the time there but yesterday the sun shone and we paddled around for 4.5 hours. We were accosted by more dolphins and sand flies. One of theses two species is beautiful and intelligent and a joy to see. The dolphins on the other hand were a complete pain. In the afternoon we were so taken with the morning that we paddled out to Sandfly Point to tramp up the Milford Trek. This is the most famous trek in NZ and costs around $2000 to do with a guide. We just sneaked up about 2km for free after all the walkers had gone for the day. It was very pretty but mostly we just chatted to people. Our guide Sam was very funny. Apparently he had ridden at the Glenorchy races a few days before and fallen off. He told us all his favourite practical jokes, which I'm not writing here as some of them were really rather good and may come in useful in the future. There was an American couple who when we were all discussing pies said " Who would think to put meat in pies" - the Australians in the party chuckled.
The day before we had stayed at Lake Gunn which is another contender for the "Most Rediculously Picturesque Campsite Award" I skimmed stones for about 2 hours.
Last night we stayed at "Grumpies" in a dorm with 3 other blokes. Nomes was next to the man with a fog horn up his nose.
A little tired today so we stopped in Wanaka and booked into an apartment for the night, to do the laundry, dry the tent and some home cooking. Heading up to the glaciers tomorrow - probably get stuck behind a camper van full of dolphins with our luck.
