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New Zealand One more day in South Island

New Zealand is a land of great contrasts and diversity. Active volcanoes, spectacular caves, deep glacier lakes, verdant valleys, dazzling fjords, long sandy beaches, and the spectacular snowcapped peaks

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New Zealand One more day in South Island

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  1. One day in South Island

  2. Welcome to the land of Aotearoa The Maori call New Zealand, Aotearoa which means “The land of the long white cloud”. New Zealand is located in Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. The official languages in New Zealand are English and Maori. The Capital city of New Zealand is Wellington, located on the North Island

  3. Fiordland, New Zealand, 1.2 million hectares of pristine national heritage park. One of New Zealand’s premier travel destinations, it is home to a myriad of  natural gems, including coastal fiords, majestic Fiordland lakes, Milford Sound, Milford Track, Lakes Manapouri, Te Anau, Monowai, Hauroko and Poteriteri

  4. We are going from Queenstown to Milford Sound

  5. Lake Gunn, a small lake between Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound, it lies close to the State Highway 94 (the Milford Sound Road)

  6. The small tramping camp of Cascade Creek lies close to the lake's southern end

  7. The west branch of the Eglinton River flows through the lake. The lake was named after George Gunn, a run holder, who discovered the lake in 1861

  8. The Eglinton Valley is well known for 'The Avenue of the Disappearing Mountain' and its wonderful views

  9. The Chasm is a spot along the Cleddau River where the watercourse disappears between a narrow chasm (as the name suggests). However, it's also a nature walk. You get to look down at mostly strangely shaped rocks and potholes resulting from the Cleddau River's forceful flow as it gets channeled into the dark and narrow abyss.

  10. Milford road, Mitre Peak

  11. The Chasm, a rather descriptive name for what this place looks like, is actually a typical karst feature called sinkhole or loosing stream.

  12. It is a result of contact karst, which means karst located at the contact between soluble and insoluble rocks.

  13. Here the Cleddau River crosses an almost invincible border. Underground the type of rock changes, and while the rocks uphill are unsoluble the water is flowing on top of the rocks in its riverbed.

  14. As soon as it reaches the limestone, the water runs through narrow cracks in the rocks, starts to solute the rock along the crack, and form caves.

  15. When the caves become bigger they will start to swallow the complete stream, at least most of the year

  16. This is what happens here. The water is flowing into a cave with a roaring chasm.

  17. Milford road, Mitre Peak

  18. We leave Fiordland going to Christchurch

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