Milford Sound

✒️ Written by: James Above painting of Milford Sound by Joseph Jack Lister (1889). Milford Sound is far from Queenstown. So, by necessity, we were up at sparrow fart: a 6am alarm to get to the bus stop at 7am. Like all the other dazed half-awake tourists, we got sorted, identified, and packed onto a bus. There was one particular woman whose job it was to get the amorphous flock of bumbling backpackers neatly divided amongst the multiple waiting coaches. She was on it. No-one argued and no-one questioned her authority. I wouldn't be surprised if she cut her teeth as a maximum-security prison guard, getting violent inmates from A to B and taking no crap in the process. Her spirit animal is probably a highly obstinate sheep dog. The drive down to Milford Sound from QT took ~6 hours ( yawn ) but the views made it worth every second. It started with still-slumbering hills blanketed in early morning mist: And then the hills gave way to valleys and soon after we were meandering through the…