Mature Flâneur

A Prayer for Milford Sound

Will New Zealand’s Most Iconic Fjord be “Lost to Tourism?”

Tim Ward, Mature Flâneur
Globetrotters
Published in
10 min readAug 5, 2023

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Milford Sound

The “Eighth Wonder of the World,” Rudyard Kipling called it. For over 140 years, Milford Sound has epitomized remote, pristine, awe-inspiring nature. Conjure an image of New Zealand — a mist-shrouded mountain rising straight up from the sea — and chances are you are…

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Tim Ward, Mature Flâneur
Globetrotters

Author, communications expert and publisher of Changemakers Books, Tim is now a full time Mature Flaneur, wandering Europe with Teresa, his beloved wife.