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In December 2023, my family and I embarked on a cruise around the south island of New Zealand. We celebrated both Christmas and New Year's Eve aboad the Royal Carribean ship 'Ovation of the Seas'.

Our first NZ port of call was scenic cruising through the Fiordland National Park:

Milford Sound

Doubtful Sound

Dusky Sound

2024_09_26

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Aerial view of Dusky Sound near the southwestern tip of South Island in New Zealand, September 1971.Photograph by Gordon Gahan, National Geographic

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Thank you my lifelong afternoon late in this season of no age thank you for my windows above the rivers thank you for the true love you brought me to when it was time at last and for words that come out of silence and take me by surprise and have carried me through the clear day without once turning to look at me

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thank you whole body and hand and eye thank you for sights and moments known only to me who will not see them again except in my mind’s eye where they have not changed thank you for showing me the morning stars

W.S. Merwin, from “Variation on a Theme,” in The Moon Before Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)