Free Things to Do in Milford Sound

Oops – if you were looking for a cool list of free things to do in Milford Sound, then check out the 10 Free & Cheap Things to Do in Milford Sound. Google just likes to show this old blog post for some reason, so use the above list if you want something more helpful. If you would like to read some witty literature about finding free things to do in Milford Sound, however, then we apologise for this interruption. Continue as you were…

This is our last day in Milford Sound, let’s make it count! So we’ve shown you the cruisy side of Milford Sound, we’ve shown what it’s like to kayak under the mountains, but we’ve yet to show you what to do in Milford Sound when you are too cheap to get on the water or when your scuba dive is cancelled (true story). There is too much fresh water in the fiord making it too murky in the water for beginner scuba divers. So instead, let’s go for a walk!

A badass breakfast

Instead of rushing down to the Milford Sound foreshore first thing, we wait for the weather to clear up a little. In true Fiordland style, it is raining hard! The mountains surrounding Milford Sound Lodge are streaming with waterfalls and we even need to put our rain gear on to get from our campervan to the cafe, because, that’s right! We are treating ourselves to a breakfast buffet this morning.

It’s not exactly backpacker style, but we are running out of breakfast foods so we fill our plates up at the breakfast buffet with croissants, muffins, a spicy chorizo dish, a egg and ham hash, toast, cheese, bread… and a hot drink. It’s weird how food becomes an activity when it is raining too hard to do anything else.

Waiting game with the rain

With our bellies stuffed, we waddle back to the campervan, do some cleaning, do some work with our limited internet voucher, monitor the shoe-drying situation in the Milford Sound Lodge drying room… anything to kill time until the rain is forecast to stop this afternoon.

“Four seasons in a day”… How New Zealand weather is often described couldn’t be truer right now. We stop hearing the pounding rain on the campervan roof, look out of the window and… Blue skies! Oh blue skies, where have you been?!

There’s no time to waste, we drive down from the Milford Sound Lodge to the Milford foreshore to do a couple of super short hikes that capture the views of Milford Sound.