Today was our Milford Sound kayaking day! This is as far south as we are going and it is a bit of a tourist destination but we got lucky and only had 2 other people in our kayak group. Roscoe’s Milford Kayaks sent us out with Olly (Ollie?) in our tandem kayaks for the boat assisted 5 hr paddle around Milford Sound. During the briefing, Olly had Josh demo the pfd adjustment and refered to him as a bit of a unit (google absolute unit for the reference)!

Before we had even gone more than 30 mins, we found a juvenile fur seal enjoying a breakfast of fish.
Our first stop was Sterling Falls, where we got up close and personal with the water and the spray. The wind coming off the falls was intense!

After the falls we toodled around, enjoying the sites and extremely calm water of the fjord (named a sound but technically a fjord). Olly said there had been 5 glacial periods that had each carved Milford out deeper and deeper. We could see the cool grooves in the sides of the cliffs where rocks had been trapped between the moving ice and immovable cliff.

The next cool thing we saw was a pod of dolphins swim past. We saw either the same pod or another one at the very end of the trip. I took a video but it wasn’t great, but I did pull out a cool still pic!