Te Anau is another brilliant lake and the start of several tracks including the 4 day Keplar Track. It Is on the edge of Fiordland National Park and therefor the place to stay for access to it . Fiordland National Park has an area the size of Wales but instead of a population of 3 million it has a peak summer population of c450. It is temperate rainforest with no introduced species and a world heritage site. It covers the Southwestern fjords formed by glaciers in the last Ice Age but the Kiwis couldn't spell and now assure us that fiord is a dictionary- accepted variant spelling , althoungh I suspect only in New Zealand. The main tourist road over to Milford sound was a Keynesian job creation programme in the 1930s but it only became an all year road in the 1970s.
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