Crazy

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Tuesday 23rd set off mid morning to the airport to fly down to the South Island. After a short 2 hour flight I arrived in Queenstown, a very busy little town, full of backpackers and Japanese tourists. The scenery is stunning and well worth a visit. The South Island is the home to the Extreme Sport Culture. You can do pretty much anything you want to here from bungy jumping off the top of a mountain to swinging through the canyon on some very dangerous looking equipment. I settled for a ride on a Jet powered boat that was a very scary but exciting experience and booked myself onto a flight to Milford Sound. I had dinner in Queenstown and walked back as the sun was setting at around 10pm. It’s nice to have long days again and tonight I see the comet in the sky so clearly. People were just stopping in the street and staring. It was a amazing sight, and I have been lucky enough to see it several times on my travels, I guess I am travelling just ahead of it and so each time I land somewhere new there it is, since this is the furthest South I will be going I guess that’s it now I wont see it again.

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Photos

Queenstown Bay
looking out onto Lake Wakatipu

View from the Jet Boat
what an awesome ride I fully reccomend it ever you go 1 whole hour of thrills at 90kph and sometimes only on four inches of water.

Queenstown Park
Very peaceful to sit in and read a book in the sunshine