MILFORD SOUND

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1927, Page 1

MILFORD SOUND

VISIT OF THE CARINTHIA

AMERICAN APPRECIATION

Recording the visit of the liner Cariatliia to that “ wonder spot,” Milford Sound, one of the tourists writes to an Australian paper as follows: “ Alany Americans declared that Milford Sound was the most beautiful of its kind in the world, excelling the fiords of Norway and Alaska. Others agreed that, while perhaps lacking the variety of the Alaskan fiords, Milford Sound was much bolder in outline, and had a more dramatic entrance. The Carinthia is the biggest ship to make the soumT, and carried the first tourists to visit there in sixteen years. “A tiny motor boat scuttled for (lie shelter in astonishment when the lingo Cunarder swung slowly through tho quarter-mile gateway: “Everyone thronged the rails. Lakiug snaps and movies of the beauty, and grandeur ot M.illOrd Sound, vihicli almost beggars description. On either side the rugged peaks rose sheer irom the water’s edge to as high as -1000 feet, backed by others 0000 toot high. It was like being locked in a giant, rock-bound ditch. “Down each mighty crag, as though coining from the sky. water fell, cutting delicate, white traceries. Tt came from the glaciers, many of which, living on the mountain sides, brought gasps ol admiration from the tourists. Materfalls and a huge snow and ice-rapped peak at the ton of the sound completed, a picture which will live for ever in memory.”