After a long and satisfying day of tramping, I finally made the change from the George Sound Track to George Sound.  This day was something that I will never forget.  I was so excited going down the track and to actually catch my first glimpse of the waters was out of this world.  It was getting late in the day as you can see from the shadows on the fiord.  I'm only ankle-deep in the water because the rocks in the water were quite slippery.  I only have ten seconds on the camera's self-timer and I didn't want to get a picture of me falling into the water, though it would have made a great picture.

I use the term "fiord" and "sound" interchangeably.  A fiord is a water filled valley that was cut by glaciers.  A sound is a water filled valley that was cut by a river.  So technically all the sounds in Fiordlands are fiords.  They were called sounds by the first western explorers and the names stuck.