Essay on visiting the magic canyon

The fjord National Park stretches for 230 kilometers from northeast to southwest, and its widest point is 80 kilometers. It is not only the largest park in New Zealand, but also one of the largest national parks in the world. There are several fjords in the park. Although the length of the 40-kilometer-long magical fjord is not the first, its depth is second to none, and 42 1 m is the deepest one.

This magical fjord is named after Captain Cook. When he came to the entrance of this fjord, he saw that the waterway was narrow and foggy, and he dared not enter rashly, saying that it was a magical fjord. Magic fjord, what's so magical about it? With suspense, we left Inver cargill, the southernmost town on earth, and drove for two hours to the picturesque LakeManapouri. There is only one way to visit the magical fjord. First, take a bus to Pearl Harbor near Manapoli Town, then take a boat for more than half an hour to cross Manapowa Lake to the other side of Xiwan, then transfer to sightseeing bus, take the special passage of wilmer, cross the primitive low-temperature rainforest and reach the special mountain pass of wilmer. Standing here, you can overlook the beautiful scenery of the bay. No wonder the tour guide asked everyone to get off and "have a look" here. After that, we got on the bus and went to Shenwan Pier, and then took a yacht to continue our three-hour trip to the surface of the fjord. Swimming in the magical fjord is not easy. The car overturned, the boat overturned, and the car overturned again. ......

Once again, we boarded a modern, spacious and well-equipped luxury catamaran named "pateaExplorer", which provided coffee, milk and drinks for free. When boarding the ship, someone behind exclaimed, "Why is the water dark here?" I looked back, and sure enough, the water was dark and the white cruise ship was parked on the dark water. The cruise ship started slowly, and after playing a beautiful piece of music, a Chinese and English tour guide introduced the explanation service, which explained the ink and water problem that many people could not understand. It turns out that the water in the fjord is composed of two layers of immiscible substances. The lower layer is salt water poured in from the sea, and the upper layer is fresh water flowing into a fjord about three meters thick from the mountains. Because the water flowing into the fjord on the mountain contains a lot of humus and soil, the light transmittance is poor. If the weather is bad, the clouds are overcast and there is no sunshine, the water in the fjord will be darker. The fjord has always been famous for its rich wildlife. There are all kinds of seals and bottlenose dolphins living in its deep waters. It is precisely because of the poor light transmission of the fjord that the underwater environment here is similar to the deep sea. Deep-sea animals often play and stroll in the fjords, and black corals also grow in the shallow waters here. The captain found a bottlenose dolphin on the left front, so he told everyone by radio that many people flocked to the deck to take pictures and watch. I clearly saw a group of dolphins chasing and rolling in the water, and one or two jumped out of the water from time to time, which attracted everyone's applause. It's lucky to see the graceful posture of bottlenose dolphins here.

"I just said black water, now tell you something about white water. Ladies and gentlemen, please look at the waterfall flying down from the cliff ahead ... "Sailing in the fjord, we look at the place pointed out by the guide. There are several waterfalls falling from the sky, and the white silks and satins hanging on the cliffs of Wan Ru are so elegant and agile. According to the tour guide, the waterfall is the most spectacular natural landscape in the fjord during the rainy season. As long as it rains for a few days, thousands of waterfalls, large and small, will rumble down from the cliffs of the fjord. The tour guide said, "Everyone has seen the waterfalls, but with so many waterfalls together, there must be many people who have never seen them. You can't see them unless you come here. " Yes, I regret coming early. I should wait until the rainy season begins in March and April. Standing on the deck, in this case, I clutched the railing of the bow guardrail with both hands, closed my eyes and began to meditate on the spectacular scene of thousands of waterfalls flying over the cliff in my mind.

Of course, the magic of fjords lies not only in white waterfalls, black seawater and deep-sea animals living here, but also in the ever-changing climate and many plants with local characteristics. In the fjord area, there are 200 rainy days a year. Sometimes the temperature changes from summer to winter in one day. It was very hot in summer just now, and soon it will be cloudy and cold. I want to wear winter clothes. Most tour guides in the fjord area will advise tourists to be prepared for sunny, rainy and cold weather even if they are afraid of taking a one-day tour in the fjord. Although the tour guide said that there are more than 700 kinds of rare plants in the fjord, when we passed through the primitive low-temperature rain forest in the wilmot Passage, we saw the most trees, such as jujue and a beech. There are many kinds of beech, such as silver beech and beech. It is said that all kinds of beeches account for seven to seven percent of the trees in the rainforest. Beech trees are tall and have many branches, and there is a thick layer of blue moss on the trunk and branches. Moss is the ecological basis of the fjord area, which can easily absorb 25 times its own weight of water. In rainy fjords, it plays an important role in regulating the climate of rainforests in low temperature zones.

The collapse of trees is also amazing. I've only heard of landslides and cliff collapses before, but I've never heard of trees falling. Trees, how can they collapse? It turns out that the hills here were all glaciers in ancient times, and the fjords were formed by glaciers eroding the mountains and land along the coast, forming canyons and causing seawater to flow backwards. Without the movement of glaciers, there would be no fjords. The hills and cliffs cut off by glacier movement are bare and barren. Although they have been weathered for many years, there is little soil and the soil layer is very thin. Many trees have developed roots and are intertwined, forming a thin layer of "soil" covered with a network structure of moss and lichen, which enables trees such as Zelkova schneideriana and Dendrocalamus giganteus to grow in groups on the cliffs. However, the roots on the cliff are very shallow. As long as a tree falls down because of illness or external forces such as snow and wind, it will cause landslides and fall down a large number of trees. This is a tree falling down. It is not easy to plant trees on rocky mountains. However, our nature guide easily says that tree collapse is a natural process to maintain ecological balance in the rainforest. The ecosystem here has adapted to "bring forth the old and bring forth the new" through the collapse of trees. After the landslide tree collapses, lichens, mosses and other shrubs will quickly cover the exposed mountains and rocks, which is conducive to the regeneration of new trees and vegetation.

Of course, the most amazing thing is that such a good place is rich in animal and plant resources, inaccessible and isolated. There was almost no commercial development and utilization in the past. Until today, the mountains here, the water here, the rain forest here, the blue sky here and the air here are still as natural and pure as when the chaos of heaven and earth first opened, and everything is primitive, primitive, primitive and silent ..... "The captain turned off the engine, so all the tourists must keep quiet for three to five minutes, so that everyone can close their eyes in silence and carefully distinguish the streams in the mountains from the songs of birds. I am hard of hearing. Although it is not because of the sounds of nature here, I also feel a quiet and magical world, which is really scary and terrible. The tour guide told us that there is heavy snow in the fjord in winter, and there is snow everywhere, but it can't be described as "snow" because the snow here is light blue. Why? Because there is no automobile exhaust, no industrial dust, no pm2.5, not even a shepherd's bonfire or a farmer's cooking smoke. New Zealanders have always taken good care of this land. Nowadays, although many people from all over the world want to visit here, in order to protect the natural, pure and beautiful environment, the daily limit of only 450 people must not be broken.

Magical fjords, towering cliffs, dense rainforests, winding and hidden beautiful inlets are all beautiful, natural and pure, ingenious and natural, without any artificial traces of knives and axes. This is really a charming pure land far away from the noise of civilization.