Hi everyone! Not much time to blog, so this is going to be short and sweet. We spent the last few days in Queenstown - the adventure sport capital of the world, and it was pretty amazing. It was smaller than we expected, but very beautiful, just like the rest of the country. Our first day there we arrived late in the day so we just relaxed for the day, and wandered around the town.
The second day we had a lovely lie in and then went up the Gondola to the top of the mountain. This gave us some really good views of the town (city?) and the surrounding areas. We also tried luging - sort of like go carting except you use gravity to move you, because its all downhill. It was good, but I think John got a lot more out of it than I did. We had a night out on the town that night - a bit of a Queenstown pub crawl, which included the very cool Ice Bar. (We were given ugg boots and coats, and even the glasses were made of ice!)The third day I did a canyon swing. For those of you not in the know, this is basically a bungy jump, but instead of bouncing at the end you swing! It still has the same stepping over the edge thing and I was petrified. I wouldn't even stand at the edge of the platform.
http://www.facebook.com/v/10150100105273006
The above is a link to the video, which is also on my facebook account.
The next day we went to Fox Glacier. We spent the afternoon hiking up through the rainforest alongside the glacier, and then we went down onto the glacier, which was a pretty unique experience. That evening we went for a walk in the rainforest, in the dark, with no torches, so as not to ruin our night vision. We went in search of glow worms, which John of course had to point are not actually worms at all. Didn't matter, since all we could see was there glowing ends, which are very pretty. (In case you didn't know glow worms can't poo, so what you see is their waste burning off!). We spent yesterday evening in Christchurch, where we went out for dinner and a few drinks, and today we are in Kaikoura, to see some Marine life. There are loads of dolphins, seals and whales in the area.
The second day we had a lovely lie in and then went up the Gondola to the top of the mountain. This gave us some really good views of the town (city?) and the surrounding areas. We also tried luging - sort of like go carting except you use gravity to move you, because its all downhill. It was good, but I think John got a lot more out of it than I did. We had a night out on the town that night - a bit of a Queenstown pub crawl, which included the very cool Ice Bar. (We were given ugg boots and coats, and even the glasses were made of ice!)The third day I did a canyon swing. For those of you not in the know, this is basically a bungy jump, but instead of bouncing at the end you swing! It still has the same stepping over the edge thing and I was petrified. I wouldn't even stand at the edge of the platform.
http://www.facebook.com/v/10150100105273006
The above is a link to the video, which is also on my facebook account.
The next day we went to Fox Glacier. We spent the afternoon hiking up through the rainforest alongside the glacier, and then we went down onto the glacier, which was a pretty unique experience. That evening we went for a walk in the rainforest, in the dark, with no torches, so as not to ruin our night vision. We went in search of glow worms, which John of course had to point are not actually worms at all. Didn't matter, since all we could see was there glowing ends, which are very pretty. (In case you didn't know glow worms can't poo, so what you see is their waste burning off!). We spent yesterday evening in Christchurch, where we went out for dinner and a few drinks, and today we are in Kaikoura, to see some Marine life. There are loads of dolphins, seals and whales in the area.
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