OK, deep breath, let's start again.
Got on the bus early (after not sleeping much...), fell asleep, stopped in TeAnau for a sandwich, got back on the bus, went back to sleep, stopped in the Fiordland National Park... and then we were told the road was closed due to freak heavy snowfall that night (20cm in one night, in essentially their late summer/early autumn). So we waited for 2 hours to see if the road could be cleared. Other buses were turning back, but we stuck it out! And hey presto, patience paid off! The road into Milford sound is awesome, 56km of road that is on 24hr avalanche and rockfall 
watch, apparently the most dangerous stretch of road in New Zealand! The road goes straight through the middle of sheer cliff faces, not so comforting when you know these mountains are right on a fault line where two tectonic plates meet each other and they regularly have earthquakes... It was still snowing, foggy and dreary as we neared the Homer Tunnel (a one-way tunnel under the mountains), but when we came out on the other side, the sun was coming out!
watch, apparently the most dangerous stretch of road in New Zealand! The road goes straight through the middle of sheer cliff faces, not so comforting when you know these mountains are right on a fault line where two tectonic plates meet each other and they regularly have earthquakes... It was still snowing, foggy and dreary as we neared the Homer Tunnel (a one-way tunnel under the mountains), but when we came out on the other side, the sun was coming out!I went on a 2-hour cruise on the sound, it was spectacular, just as they show it on the postcards. Anyway, I'll let the pictures do the talking!
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