SOUNDS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 February 1930, Page 3

SOUNDS

(To the Editor)

. Sir, —The chief glory of the round trip to our Sounds, as a trip, and apart from die magnificent scenery spread out ut every turn is that, one doesn't cover any portion of the same route twice.

Round trips are rare. Nelson is not thi' only place where you return by the same route as out you went, generally. The scenery on the west side, down as far as the Croixelles harbour is very fine, but entirely different in character from that which confronts you in the Sounds. Water and laud seem to be fairly evenly divided here. The motor car of the Sounds is the motor boat. It is Venice on an enormous scale, with a total coast line which if stretched out in a straight line would reach the best part of the way to Australia. If scenery such as this was to be found, say in Borneo or New Guinea, we should have many hundreds of our people going over every year to see it and coming back in ecstasies—but as it lies at our very door naturally no one, or at least very few, bother about it. and they arc so much the poorer. They really don't know what they're missing. 1 am, etc., R.S.