The storm raged throughout the night, with torrential rain and cyclonic winds. When morning came, the rain continued, but the wind calmed down a bit, allowing the departure of the cruise along the entire length of Milford Sound out to the Tasman Sea, sliding past granite peaks rising thousands of feet from the water’s edge.
Mountains across Milford Sound were gushing water everywhere I looked at. All of the mountains turned into waterfalls!
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Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
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Milford Sound stood for many years as a mythical place in my imagination. Now that I was finally able to see it with my own eyes, I can say that reality far exceeded my wildest expectations.
The view is overwhelming, huge mountains with water gushing from its entrails in countless waterfalls. And all of it seen in utter silence.
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Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park, South Island, New Zealand
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This is a pano of Lake Mueller, a glacier lake fed by the Mueller Glacier, in Mt Cook National Park.
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Mt Cook National Park, South Island, New Zealand
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This amazing black bird took me on a fantastic flight exploring Mount Cook's (South Island, New Zealand) beauties. Only a magic carpet can be better than that! 😊
Here we had landed on a plateau, at the top of the glaciated mountains, at about 3.700m altitude.
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Mt Cook National Park, South Island, New Zealand
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Arctic, Norway
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