A very welcome surprise when we woke, it wasn’t raining for
all of 30 minutes! But then the rain started again. Today we sailed up Hall
Arm, the most picturesque of the fiords due to the sheer cliffs either side of
the water. The nature guide described how the moss grows first, locks in the
water, then the ferns grow, then the trees. However, none of it is anchored
anywhere, it all anchors each other, which causes tree avalanche. We saw quite
a few gaps in the rock where the avalanche must have occurred.
The rain cam back in full force when we needed to go outside
to the ‘sound of silence’. The generators were switched off, and we bobbed in
the cove and perfect silence, apart from the pouring rain. Soaked to the skin,
we warmed up in the cabin. The boat then went nose into a cave where you could
hold out a glass and drink the water that runs off the waterfall.
We disembarked, in the rain, and boarded the bus over the
mountain, back to the power station, back across the lake. Trouble is that
everything is closed due to flooding. We can’t get to Milford to do the boat
tour because the road is closed, the glow worm tour is currently closed and the
lake is flooded in Te Anau where we are staying tonight. It’s very very much
like a British summer.
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