The trip up from Invercargill to Te Anau was a complete wash out, torrential rain and howling gales the whole day.

But on the positive side we managed to get the washing and ironing up to date and found an excellent restaurant for dinner.

This morning we woke up to a fantastic sunny day (lucky!) for our trip to Milford Sound.

The rain had washed all the Australian bush fire dust away.

We went with a small company called Trips & Tramps who provided a minibus and personal guide to The Sound, cruise and lunch.  On the way there we saw a rare Kea Mountain Parrot.

We could not have hoped for better weather, Milford Sound was looking it's best and we even saw some dolphins.

To top it all, we took a helicopter flight part way back to Te Anau over the peaks, landing on a glacier.

As the locals say "Awesome".