Blogs from Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 12

So we were up at the crack of dawn for brads bungy jump....got to the office by about 8, had to wait a little while so we got ourselves some brekkie from across the road to kill the time and calm Brads nerves lol. We had to get a coach to the place he was doing the jump and we paid for me to go as a spectator so I got to join him. I think the coach journey was about half an hour and we had to go up the narrowest dirt track up a mountain to get there, which had me in bits enough as it was! As we arrived we were given a locker to out our things in and then harnessed up and out back to see what Brad was about to ... read more

So I just had a little peek at TravelBlog for the first in many months, and noticed I have at some point inexplicably been awarded membership of the “TravelBlog Hall of Fame”. I did not know that this was a thing, but it would seem that it is a thing, and I am in it. http://www.travelblog.org/Topics/34398-1.html Apparently only 20 of the 300,000 or so bloggers on the site earn this each year, so I’m utterly baffled as to how I’ve found myself on the list. But thanks!! This is awesome and confusing in equal measure. I suppose I should use this as motivation to finish uploading my Africa journal before I lose it all by accidentally tipping gin and tonic on my laptop again. But I just got back from a little trip to New Zealand ... read more

Raining today , so good day to leave queenstown. Renting a car, stay on the left!supposed to take 4 hours by car. mary took the naked bus there for her hike,but will be gone when we get there hope to see the royals, they are there tomorrow ?dunedin is where the cadberry chocolate factory is luv that?... read more

Arrived on queenstown today, so beautiful to fly in and see the fjords, lakes,mountains. our niece mary took the bus over from Christchurch and we met her as she got off the bus!! I think she was surprised to see us but happy for a familiar face. The hotel here has a shuttle to town or u can pay $10 each to ride the water taxi. Queenstown is on a lake.town is full of 20 some things and mary got a nice bed at a hostel with its own bathroom!! She got upgraded due to some guy booking a female room!!! Tomorrow we are taking an all day tour to doubtful sound supposed to be a clear day!!??⚓️... read more

Friday 14th March - they say all good things come to those who wait. After getting stuck at Raspberry Creek and totally waterlogged we luxuriated in powered campsite with hot showers. Blue skies so Tony booked in for paragliding at Three Cones mountain. Paragliding minibus picked us up and drove up the gravel road for what seemed forever. Finally arrived at the take-off point 1100 metres up! Tony was to be the last flight of the season. Teamed up with Rob, the pilot, and got kitted out. Then it was a case of running off the side of the mountain into the wind and soaring. We were lucky that there was some thermals and updrafts against the side of the mountain which gave narrow columns of uprising air. Before long we were above 1100 metres - ... read more