{"id":4415,"date":"2014-02-25T18:34:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T18:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2014-10-07T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T15:29:53","slug":"joe-louis-kayaks-the-milford-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/joe-louis-kayaks-the-milford-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Louis kayaks the Milford Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We managed a day trip to Milford Sounds, wrongly named as it is in fact a Fiord. If you are wondering about the difference, a Fiord or Fjord in Norway is a bunch of water at the bottom of mountains formed by the ocean filling up valleys left behind from glacial movement back in the day. A sound, however, is a bunch or water filled up by the ocean caused by river erosion and natural water movement. 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