On our bus tour to Milford Sound we had to wait for 10 minutes to drive through the Homer Tunnel, a 1.2km-long tunnel through solid rock. This was on the east side at an elevation of approximately 800 metres.

Before the tunnel opened in 1954 after 19 years of construction, there was no road access to Milford Sound.

Bare snowy mountain tops with streams. Above, misty rain.