As part of our trip to Milford Sound, we were talked into paying an extra chunk of cash to visit Milford Discovery Centre. This is a floating platform in the water which extends 10m below the surface of the sea with a viewing platform on the lowest level. Tourists like us can thus get to see the local aquatic sealife up close.
The most impressive of this was, apparently, the black coral:
Our guide was quick to explain why it is called black coral despite its white appearance: it apparently only appears black when dead. This must have been an embarassment to the guy who first studied a dead piece of coral and then named the stuff.
Here is a fish enjoying the black coral almost as much as us:
After heading back to the surface, the boat came to pick us up and take us back to the vistor center at the head of the fjord.
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