Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound.

There is a track from Mt. Nicholas to the Te Anau road, via Mavora Lakes; or the tourist may return to Kingston, thence to Lumsden, and take the coach to Te Anau. Te Anau is the largest lake in the South Island. It is 42 miles long, and from one to six miles broad. There is a steamer on the lake, and the beauties of Te Anau can be seen from her deck. The scenery is not so grandlv rugged as at Lake Wakatipu, but it has a beautv all its own. The mountains surrounding the lake are densely wooded, "and the green sheen of

Kawarau Falls

Malaghan, photo

Rees Valley showing Mt. Anstead, head of Lake Wakatipu

Malaghan. photo

the forest," as Dr. Waddell observes, "crowned with the gleaming snow above, makes up a picture which, for extent and loveliness, is unsurpassed." From the head of the lake, where there is a Government Accommodation House (" Glade House"), a track leads via the beautiful Clinton Canyon to the Sutherland Falls (17 miles) and Milford Sound (30 miles), and the country passed through is unequalled, for wealth of magnificent scenery in any country in the world Even the beauties of the Yosemite Valley sink into comparative insignificanee when compared with the inexpressibly lovely Canyon of the Clinton, and the Sutherland Falls (1904 feet) are the highest in the world. There are Government shelter-huts. Well supplied with food and bedding, at convenient intervals along the track, with residential cooks and Government guides to attend to travellers. There is an accommodation house (Sutherland's) at the head of Milford Sound; an oil launch is available for exeursions round this splendid fjord.

Lake Manapouri

Muir and Moodie Photo