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Bec2004-09-20 11:38:03
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/>Having set foot in the tourist circuit, I just had to go along with it and visit Milford Sound which no self respecting tourist can avoid. All joking aside one has to to give the Kiwis their due: they are master shepherds and do it as well with tourists as with sheep. Personally I think that they are better shepherding tourists than sheep because they do it quite efficiently even without dogs! Anyway, this is beautiful Gunn Lake in the mountains on the way to Milford Sound.
MILFORD SOUND
Milford Sound was great to see but I'm sure I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I had not been passenger no. 23 on bus no. 8 of a 14 bus fleet moving the herd of tourists from Te Anau to Milford Sound and back. On this picture you can see another two catamarans each with about a hundred tourists like my own.
I look pleased to be photographed on Milford Sound in this picture but that is only my apparent good nature. Actually I am furious with myself for having allowed myself to be herded into this very touristy tourist tour. Feelings have nothing to do with logic and I admit the contradiction I am facing here. I would have been absolutely thrilled to discover beautiful Milford Sound after doing the four day tramp along the Milford Track trough the mountains but I am far from being pleased with myself for being here as passenger no. 23 on bus no. 8... (even if I do realise that I would not have the stamina at my age to do that four day trek). That is definitely not logical but that's the way it is.
DUNEDIN
Well, having gotten over my mixed feelings about tourism and Milford Sound, I spent a couple of days in lovely Scottish looking Dunedin on the east coast of the South Island. Dunedin was great, I stayed in a friendly backpackers called the Penguin Place and enjoyed the local sights including an antique train ride through the spectacular Taeri gorge. All this was
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