Liz and I spent the first day of the new year doing a boat cruise in Doubtful Sound. This is a region carved by glaciers where steep mountains climb directly out of the ocean inlets of the sound. The scenery is amazing, and since it had rained the day before, there were plenty of temporary waterfalls coming down from the sheer cliffs.
The cruise took us across a large lake and by bus over a mountain range that had been built to bring supplies for the construction of a large hydroelectric plant at the end of the lake. The water flowed from the lake through a 10km tunnel that was bored through the mountain and exited at the inlet to the sea. There was a massive engineering feet but it produces enough power to sustain Christchurch.
The day was pleasant with some great scenery. We even were able to get up close and personal with a few of the water falls, where the droplets fell serenely from high above us to the water below.
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