don't doubt me!

So after our jetboating and rafting we just couldn't get ourselves away from the water... time to cruise on down to the fiordland to get on a cruise. We made our way down to Doubtful Sound for an overnight fishing cruise - the weather was perfect! This particular region in NZ gets over 6 METERS of rain a year... and the 2 days we were there it was blue skies with a few perfectly placed clouds. Just gorgeous!

Doubtful Sound is supposed to be the most pristine of all the sounds... less touristy than most because you have to take a water taxi across the lake to a bus that will then take you to the sound... so you can't just drive there yourself. Josh puts it at the top of our NZ trip... and I'd have to agree - it's definitely up there. So great!

We got to the boat with 9 other guests - we had lunch first thing... fresh lobster caught that very morning! We carried on with the cruise seeing all the sights.. waterfalls and crazy steep mountains and dolphins and not a whole lot of other people or boats. It was awesome. That afternoon we went fishing for dinner... all of us caught fish - Josh catching both the largest and smallest fish (the hook was longer than the fish was!). Before dinner we pulled up a few more lobster traps and watched Chris (the skipper) fillet the fish and lobsters. It was a hell of a trip. Amazing. Absolutely a highlight.

Now - the video's long, but worth it -- so pretty!