More than fifty years ago Ray first set eyes on the Fiordland Mountains while doing a tour of his adopted homeland. As a child growing up in war-time London, he immigrated to New Zealand in 1953 on the cusp of his seventeenth birthday to work on a dairy farm in Northland. Captivated by that first visit to Te Anau and Milford Sound, Ray and his wife, Helen, have lived in the Te Anau area since 1961, with only a five-year separation from the Fiordland Mountains when they worked as managers of a motor camp near Rotorua. During this recording, Ray talks about his early years in London, emigration from England and arrival in New Zealand, working in the dairy industry, diverging on a new path as a tour guide and his love for a once-remote area of the country.