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Milford Sound is probably best promoted place in all Fiordland. And it is easy to understand why when you get there, especially if it happens in a beautiful day like that. Same might say we got very lucky to be there in such weather conditions, but I personally think it depends what really you are looking for. If you got there in a rainy day, you could be very lucky to see real magnificence of local waterfalls. But anyway, the day was pretty, and I could not desire more. The depth of Milford Sound something about five hundred meters (I could not recall exact number). Below sea level everything looks pretty much the same as above. The cliffs just continue to go down the same way before reach the bottom. Originally the Sound is nothing more then bed of Glaser melted down. Few hundreds thousand years ago huge amount of ice and snow made its way from the very top of the Southern Alps, and sliced rocks like a knife. The weight of ice was so big, so it just crashed rocks in a dust and wiped it out. When Ice Age finished ice melted and sea level raised and filed up all canyons like that one and that how Fiordland came to life. This is the story in brief. Actually it is much mire complicated and dramatic, but for geological amateur like me, it already sounds impressive enough.