The helipad at the bow of Celebrity Eclipse is awash with puffer jackets and cameras as the 122,000-tonne cruise ship glides into Milford Sound, the geological diva on the southwestern tip of New Zealand’s South Island.
It’s glacial grandeur at every turn. As J.H. Richards enthused lyrically in a 1955 history of Milford Sound: “Can you imagine … a whole mountain range shedding the rain in a