Milford Sound...

Hi Everyone,
Sorry I didn't e-mail yesterday the internet in Milford Sound was broken!
We got up really early yesterday and started walking to the bus stop for 6.45am, however very helpfully a taxi drove past and we asked them to get us a taxi! It was cold and our bags were well heavy!
We got on the bus with our trusty bus driver Peter! We thought the bus journey was going to be just a boring trip but it turned out to be a bit more like a tour bus so we got to learn lots of stuff on the way!!! :-) Peter the bus driver literally did not stop telling us stuff for like the whole 5 hours that he was driving! It was sooooo funny! I however fell asleep for most of the way! lol!
We stopped in Te Anua which is the nearest town (95miles) from Milford Sound, it was very very cold and because I thought we were going to be on a bus for 5 hours I was just wearing a sundress and flip flops! I got a lot of weird looks! But it was really warm in Queenstown, I didn't know it was going to be cold and rainy! lol! We headed into the world heritage site, it was ABSOULTELY STUNNING! We went through Homers tunnel which is this really weird one way tunnel and is the only reason Milford Sound is now assessable by car!
We then stopped at 'The Caseum', where we took a quick walk through the forest to get to this amazing waterfall! When we arrived in Milford Sound Peter dropped us off at the drive to our Lodge, the only accommodation in Milford Sound, 'Milford Sound Lodge'. Its amazing its a very nice lodge and our 4 dorm room is really nice, all very clean but its completely surrounded by stunning mountains! We're in the middle of nowhere, I have no phone reception!!! Plus the internet was down, AND the pay phone is broken! We saw this women jogging and were like 'Where has she jogged from???' considering the nearest town is 95miles away!!!
After settling into the hostel we got the bus (2km) into Milford Sound. Milford Sound has one pub/cafe, a wharf, the tinnest airport I've seen and one accommodation place! Theres nothing here apart from water and scenery! We had some drinks in the pub and I worked on my application, then we had dinner! We wandered back after that and played battleships and guess who! lol! Was so funny!
This morning we got up bright and early and headed down to the marina to go on a cruise into the sound! It was amazing. Milford Sound is not actually a sound it is a fiord, which means that the mountains shapes were created by glacier erosion. They were created under the water and as tectonic plates move and earthquakes happen they have risen up from under the water! There are still glaciers on top of some of the mountains like Mount Pembroke for example. There are waterfalls everywhere! Its just stunning!
In addition it is one of the only places in the world that deep water emergence happens! Which is where because of the mountains working as tea bags a fresh water layer is created and a sea water layer is underneath - this means that you get marine life living at 10meters that normally lives at 60meters+ in open sea! We cruised all the way out to the opening to the tasman sea and also saw fur seals, who were soooo cute! Rob however said I should have been a seal cause you get to sleep all day and laze about on Rocks... RUDE! lol! We got driven into waterfalls, and got very wet!
Also Rob and I went to Milford deep which is this sea observatory, you walk down 9meters in to a chamber with acrylic viewing windows and view marine life (really good because of the emergence effect), it is one of the only places in the world where you can view black coral... which is actually white (the roots are black and another plant thats white grips on to it). We saw loads of fishes and coral and sea cucumber etc. It was AWESOME!!! Had such a fantastic day! We wandered back to the hostel after and made ourselves some lunch!
Theres not much to do here unless you do day walks (which we don't have time to do), but it really is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been in my life! If you come to New Zealand you cannot miss it! Tonight we're going to go and find some glow worms which are right next to our hostel! Owww the river runs right outside our dorm room so you can hear it in the night! Sooooo nice! When I get to a decent computer I'll upload some photos.... until then have a look on wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford_sound
I hope everyone is ok!
Lots of Love,
Sarah xxx