Water, water , everywhere

An earthquake woke us in the early hours ( just for the record that's the 3rd shake I've experienced in the last fortnight) so that added a bit of drama to the start of our adventure . After checking road reports as the road ahead of us is very prone to slips after rain (and probably earthquakes) we set off. In no time we began to experience quite heavy rain, boding well for waterfalls. And we weren't to be disappointed. Milford Sound is actually a glacial formed fiord, (a sound is a sea flooded river valley)wrongly named by John Grono the first European settler, he named it after Milford Haven in Wales. After heavy rain hundreds of temporary waterfalls cascade down the cliff faces, unbelievably spectacular but very hard to convey the scale of the valleys and the amount of water falling. For the record,Milford Sound has a mean annual rainfall of 6,814mm on 182 days a year.