Village Squire, 1977-07, Page 17Land of Dreams
BY BILL HART
If you have ever met a person without a special dream to
fulfill send him around to me and I'll arrange to have the local
undertaker embalm him as a curiosity.
Your personal dream might have been Hawaii, and that of
your neighbour a visit to the Taj in India. Many good Roman
Catholics dream of Rome as Muslims in a foreign land dream
of a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Often when the dream becomes a reality the magic is gone
and reality falls short of the vision. I can only hope that your
dream when it is realized will be as rewarding as mine was.
From the moment I started reading about far distance
places, there was an ever increasing urge to have a look at
New Zealand, and have a ride on Millford Sound described by
many world travellers as the single most beautiful place on
our small planet.
Three years ago we finally made it and the moment we
arrived in Aukland I began to worry. Millford Sound is in the
heart of South Island's Fiordland and depending on the way
you look at it is blessed or cursed with one of the heaviest
rainfalls in the world. Time was limited and people we met as
we worked our way south cheerfully told us it could rain for a
week or 10 days at a time. As we crossed on the ferry from
Wellington there were reports of rains heavy for even that
area, in progress. Luck seemed to be turning our way for by
the time we reached Te Anna the weather was breaking. We
kept our fingers crossed.
Next morning we woke to a smiling sky and set off by bus
over the divide and down to the upper reaches of the Sound
under a sky blue beyond the imagination of smog cursed
North Americans. Shortly after we were on one of the small
tour boats that were to carry us the length of Millford and
momentarily out into the Tasman Sea. The sensation was not
unlike that of walking down the centre of Salisbury Cathedral
through here in place of tall pillars we moved between lofty
mountains topped by Mitre Peak rising a mile shear out of the
water on our left. Instead of the great arched roof we sailed
under the blue arch of Heaven. Salisbury was man's
handiwork at its best and completely dwarfed by the splendor
of nature as it was laid down in the beginning. You can hunt
the Oxford dictionary from A to Z or search Roget's
Thesaurus for similes and come away defeated. The words
have yet to be minted that will evoke on paper the majesty of
this remote corner of the world. Nor will two dimentional
slides however well exposed bring to the screen the impact of
such an experience.
Are you ready for an anti -climax? Well. ready or not. here it
is. We had a third day in Te Anna and guided by Lady Luck
we struck off on another all day combination of bus, boat, bus
and boat to explore Doubtful Sound to the south. Doubtful. so
named by Captain James Cook, because the prevailing winds
off the sea were so strong he was unsure that his boat would
get out again if he entered to explore. had just been opened to
the public and there was little advanced publicity to herald it.
Take our tip and if you arrive on a tigh schedule with an
either/or decision, opt for Doubtful Sound as it's even more
beautiful.
There seems to be a fly in every bottle of ointment and we
found on returning to Canada, that New Zealand does not
accept senior citizens. If it did this bit would have a Nelson
address.
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