THE WANAKA EXCURSION TRIP.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4955, 8 February 1877, Page 5

THE WANAKA EXCURSION TRIP.

(FROM OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT;) ■ : :.; (BY TBLE6BAPB.) ~■:.' • > .'.'•..' Bluff, Tuesday. • v The Wanaka arrived here at 5.30 p.m. ' Since leaving Hokitika, the places visited have been Jackson Bay and Martin Bay, and Milford, Bligh, Thompson, Bradshaw, - Doubtful, Breaksea, Dusky, and Preservation Sounds. •At Dusky; Sound were landed two prospectors, who intend staying in this sound a -year prospecting for minerals. They have a whaleboat and twelve months' '■•. . ;'v. It has been wretched weather all through. From the time of .leaving'Nelson to the last day we spent hi the Sounds there has-been only one on which rain has not fallen; gales of wind, dense fogs, and heavy rains followed in succession. The only'time the weather favored-us was while we were at Milford Sound. It cleared up about an hour before we got in, and it could not possibly have been finer than it was during our stay there. Next day, however, it rained heavily, and at night whilst lying at anchor in Bligh Sound the captain thought.it prudent to keep up a lull head of steam all night Added to the wet it, has been intensely cold. -' ' . •"'•" [ \ '■ i: '. ,"■ Through^delays since leaving Wellington, when we arrived*at Milford Sound the moon was in its last quarter. In future excursions should commence -doing the Sounds at Dusky and not''at Milford. After seemg the latter the others have very little ; interest for sightseers. •-'■■•■ ' ',.! .' .. Had the weather been at all fine the excursion would have been a great success. The. company is good,'and Captain Malcolmhad made every arrangement possible for the comfort of passengers. The-steamer is very crowded;, but that is the passengers' own faalt, most of them from Dunedin only took out their tiokets on; the morning of the steamer's departure, and ihad the company known so many were going the Rotorua would have been sent An address has been presented to Captain Malcolm, and a purse of £26 to the steward.