After the healthy hiking of Mount Cook we decided to even things up in Dunedin with Tours of the Cadburys Factory and a Brewery. Both were really good fun, altho I feared for the cadbury tour guides mental heath, he was overly jolly. From Dunedin we set sail for Queenstown, the adventure capital of the world! We almost ran out of fuel on the way, but after an overnight stop in a field we managed to limp to a petrol station in the middle of nowhere at 7am and waited for 2 hours for a man to come and open up shop. Back on the road we were soon at Queenstown and within 30mins of being there we had signed our lives away on the 3rd highest bungy jump in the world and the worlds highest swing.
The bungy and swing were biblically epic. The Nevis highwire bungy is a 134m drop with 8seconds of falling before you bounce back up. The most nerve jangling thing is wiating around in a tiny gondola dangling high above the valley floor waiting for your name to be called. Jumping out into nothingness with your feet tied to a length of elastic is a strange sensation. The first second feels amazing, the feeling of hurling youself out is liberating, its the next 7seconds of falling that are crazy. The floor approaches mighty fast. Bungys completed and high on adrenalin we moved on to our next activity, the Nevis arc. This is basically a giant swing over a canyon, falling from 120m up you rush towards the floor and then at what seems mighty close to the bottom you swoop across and up the other side. I asked to do mine upside down and took my camera with me, the video is pretty cool. And all going well the vids should be posted abover this.
Next up for us is a spot of lugeing today, then tomorrow we are going for a nice relaxing two day stroll along the Routeburn track. Hope you are all well. Blog soon.
Rich
The bungy and swing were biblically epic. The Nevis highwire bungy is a 134m drop with 8seconds of falling before you bounce back up. The most nerve jangling thing is wiating around in a tiny gondola dangling high above the valley floor waiting for your name to be called. Jumping out into nothingness with your feet tied to a length of elastic is a strange sensation. The first second feels amazing, the feeling of hurling youself out is liberating, its the next 7seconds of falling that are crazy. The floor approaches mighty fast. Bungys completed and high on adrenalin we moved on to our next activity, the Nevis arc. This is basically a giant swing over a canyon, falling from 120m up you rush towards the floor and then at what seems mighty close to the bottom you swoop across and up the other side. I asked to do mine upside down and took my camera with me, the video is pretty cool. And all going well the vids should be posted abover this.
Next up for us is a spot of lugeing today, then tomorrow we are going for a nice relaxing two day stroll along the Routeburn track. Hope you are all well. Blog soon.
Rich
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