“That’s the waterfall Hugh Jackman jumped off.”

    A woman beside me at the ship’s rail pointed out Stirling Falls, a cascade that drops three times the height of Niagara into New Zealand’s Milford Sound. “In the movie,” she explained, meaning X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The cascade was indeed worthy of a Hollywood film, as were other waterfalls that sprang from the green cliffs, dropping like white ropes to the sea.