Doubtful Sound, New Zealand

study abroad		queenstown		mt cook & tasman glacier		milford sound		doubtful sound		auckland

Lake Manapouri is NZ's second deepest lake, over 1000ft deep, and along with Doubtful Sound, it is used to generate electricity	Lake Manapouri is 591ft (180m) above sea level, so they have water falling down to sea level through tunnels, where it spins generators to make electricity, and then flows out into Doubtful Sound, which is also a fiord, not a sound	Doubtful Sound, from atop Wilmot Pass. The road from the power station at Manapouri to Doubtful Sound is gravel, and NZ's most expensive road, something like $2.50 per centimeter of road.

Doubtful Sound is probably 3 times the size of Milford Sound, and slightly deeper. The sides of the fiord seemed steeper, too.	Bottlenose dolphins live in the sound, and play with the boats

A fishery based on a tiny island, I think they were after lobster	Many waterfalls in Doubtful Sound, too	Somewhere in the fiord

		The weather started to suck

U-shaped glacial valley		At the entrance to Doubtful Sound, from the Tasman Sea. Cook called it Doubtful Sound because he didn't think his ships could go up it, little did he know it was over 1000ft deep and runs several miles inland.

Postcard of Doubtful Sound on a nice day	The generator room at Manapouri Power Station, the bus drives 1.2mi (2km) down a rock-carved tunnel to get there. The whole power station seems like something from a Bond movie.

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