Monday, May 07, 2007





Milford Sound, NZ - Captain Cook mistakenly called Milford a "sound" when in fact it is fijord. That means it was carved out by glaciers as opposed to the action of the ocean working over millenia on the mouth of an estuary. The most amazing thing happened while we waited for our timed passage through Homer Tunnel on the Milford Road. A lone bagpiper complete with kilt and all the regalia was piping to assembled groups. Little children tried to run up to him but he was so high up on a ridge and they were all trying to beat the clock they never reached him. It was so other worldly to hear just the sound of the bagpipes in the wilderness valley.

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