Milford Sound (South Island)

This is meant to be the second wettest place in the world, and from what we have seen, it most definately is, it never stopped raining! We visited the sound, and walked the 20 minute boardwalk, to get the view of the sound, and took some touristy pics as you do. We went and found our accomodation, which was the only lodge in the place and landed in our room, we messed around a bit to find a phone to contact the last hostel, to put aside our adaptor and charger we left. We took a short drive up to a waterfall called the chasm, where the water has made some beautiful shapes out of the soft and hard rock. Didn't do much else apart from meet a nice couple from Australia, so chatted with them for a while and at dark ventured out to a small glowworm cave at the hostel, then went to bed.
We got up the next morning and went for a short drive to a 3 hrs walk called Key Summit, no suprise it was raining, so set off with new waterproofs and as we reached the top, the cloud was that low you could only see about 10 ft in front... The worst bit was that we found out our waterproofs weren't that waterproof and we had wet legs! We got back to the car and had lunch before driving down the road to Lake Marian, which i thought would be a flat 3hr walk to a lake, hmmm wasn't i wrong, it was like an obstackle course through the jungle on a cliff face! We were knackered by the time we got to the top and were let down again by the cloud and could not see anything, thus no pictures of the lake! Got back made tea and then played a game of Monopoly, i managed to by all the expensive properties and put houses on, so when jack owed me $1100 rent she had to sell up and became bankrupt! It was fun for a change.We are off to Queenstown tomorrow and Jacks driving, so if you don't hear from us in a couple of days, you know why.