Oh No Its Raining!

Sailing Into Doubtful Sound

After we left Milford Sound, we were back in rough seas for a while before turning into Doubtful Sound. The gentle showers in Milford turned into a downpour in Doubtful. My initial reaction was concern that this would ruin the view as we went through this attraction, but in actual fact although it made the views different, it added and improved them as well.

With the rain pouring down, I couldn’t go out on deck, but my balcony provided shelter from the rain and wind and provided a spectacular viewpoint.

Black & White

The rain turned the normal green scenery into black and white, and anything any distance away faded into the rainy haze, and the mountain tops disappeared into the clouds. My photos showed gray-green in the foreground, dark blue next, and then various shades of gray as the more distant peeks and cliff faded into the rain.

When the rain slackened off, and the ship moved closer to the edges of the Sound, the rich green of the trees clinging impossibly to almost sheer cliffs came back into view only to fade away as the rain increased again. Looking up, the tops of the peeks clung to tendrils of low clouds and disappeared in the mist.

Rain Has Decreased

The rain, instead of ruining the view, added to it.