Doubtful Sound / Patea
Remote forty-kilometre fiord of sheer forested walls, waterfalls and resident bottlenose dolphins.
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This guide to Doubtful Sound / Patea, a long day trip from Queenstown, begins in nineteen fifty-four with a young Invercargill couple asking a bank for money to buy two rundown boats. It follows the people who tried to sell this remote fiord as a holiday, from Captain Cook's hesitation at its mouth to a guide who built a lodge at Deep Cove in the nineteen twenties. Best heard on deck, looking back toward Deep Cove.
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