Doubtful Sound Cruise Tours, Beechwood Lodge New Zealand.

Wilmot Pass by coach 10 miles journey to the cruise boat in Doubtful Sound. The boat is moored at Deep Cove. The coach driver stops for photo taking.

Doubtful Sound New Zealand
Day & Overnight Cruise - Prices

Doubtful Sound cruise tours depart just 15 minutes walk
from Beechwood Lodge.

The journey begins with a 30 minute catamaran trip to the Visitor Center on the opposite shore of Lake Manapouri.

From catamaran to coach for the 10 mile drive over Wilmot Pass to Deep Cove where the cruise ship is moored.

Marine life includes: little blue penguins, fur seals, dolphins.

Fiordland Crested Penguins

Manapouri to Doubtful Sound. Visitor Center at the West Arm of Lake Manapouri where the transfer to coach occurs.

There is no public road access into Doubtful Sound. Access is restricted to protect this very special area of Fiordland. The blue line in the map above connecting Deep Cove with West Arm, is the underground tail-race tunnel from the Manapouri Power Station. |. Tour Operator

Cruise discount: Save 20% off tours when booking both Milford Sound and Doubtful Sound day cruises. Package: Lodge & Cruises

Other Doubtful Sound cruise tours - private charter or small groups from
6 to 10 passengers:. Ecology Holidays. |. Deep Cove Charters

Reservations: Through Beechwood Lodge, your hosts issue the tickets and add the cost to your lodge bill, payable on check-out.


Kayaking Doubtful Sound	Fiordland Crested Penguin

Doubtful Sound: from a book by Viscount Cobham

"There are just a few areas left in the world where no human has ever set foot. That one of them should be in a country so civilized, so advanced as New Zealand may seem incredible, unless one has visited the south-west corner of the S. Island.

Doubtful Sound is one of the south's best-kept secrets. Accessible only across Lake Manapouri and Wilmot Pass, Doubtful Sound is three times longer and 10 times larger than its more famous cousin Milford Sound.

Jagged razor backed mountains rear their heads into the sky. More than 200 days of rain a year ensure not a tree branch is left bare and brown, moss and epiphytes drape every nook. The forest is intensely green.

This is big country ... one day peaceful, a study in green and blue, the next melancholy and misty, with low cloud veiling the tops... an awesome place, with its granite precipices, its hanging valleys and its thundering cascades".