Cruises to Fiordland, New Zealand

Cruise Fiordland

• Affinity Cruises' Cruise Fiordland trip is a six-night, round-trip cruise to Fiordland. It begins in the town of Te Anau with a cruise across Lake Manapouri. You ride a motor coach to Wilmot Pass, and pick up the boat, the Affinity, in Doubtful Sound. While cruising, you will learn about Captain James Cook's voyages and the first Europeans who came to the area. You may see wildlife such as swimming fur seal pups, bottlenose dolphins playing and whales. Walk through forests, view waterfalls and remote areas of New Zealand. Scuba divers can view black coral or dive the 1910 sunken wreck of Waikare, a 96-passenger vessel. Additional cruises offered to Fiordland, New Zealand are for three nights and 10 nights. The eight-cabin Affinity is air-conditioned with a lounge area and three bathroom facilities. Two scuba diving tanks and tender are onboard.

  Affinity Cruises New Zealand
  P.O. Box 54
  Renwick, 7352
  Marlborough, New Zealand
  +64-3-572-7223
  affinitycruises.co.nz

Doubtful Sound Overnight Cruise

• Deep Cove Charters, a small tour company, has an overnight cruise on the Seafinn with its six private cabins, offering a personalized cruise and service. It begins with a 50-minute boat ride across scenic Lake Manapouri to West Arm. A vehicle awaits you for a 45-minute ride to Deep Cove at Doubtful Sound where you board the Seafinn. The Seafinn with take you around Doubtful Sound with its spectacular scenery and out to the Tasman Sea for more relaxation, fishing for sea perch, blue cod and even shark.

  Deep Cove Charters
  P.O. Box 64
  Manapouri, New Zealand
  +64-3-249-6828
  doubtful-sound.com

Dusky Sound Discovery Cruise

• The five-day Dusky Sound Discovery Cruise aboard the 34-passenger Milford Wanderer by Real Journeys begins from Lake Manapouri. Explore three deep fiords, Dusky Sound, Breaksea and Doubtful Sound, teeming with wildlife such as bottlenose dolphins. Breaksea and Dusky Sounds allow for moorings so that you can make trips ashore. You can view more than 350 islands set aside by Richard Henry, New Zealand's first conservationist. Passengers can enjoy the use of kayaks, and rounding out the experience are specialist nature guides onboard for questions and answers.

  Real Journeys
  Corner Town Centre & Mokonui Streets
  P.O. Box 1
  Te Anau 9640
  +64-3-249-7416
  realjourneys.co.nz