Friday 20th April – The Flying Fox & Drive to Wellington

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Today is mainly a travel day to drive the 380km to Wellington to catch the ferry to the south island. (If you ever camp or hire a campervan in NZ get a “Top10 Holiday Park” members card as it save us over $100 on the crossing and only cost us $30).

The first 100km of the drive was spectacular along the edge of Lake Taupo and up and over the Tongariro National Park.

Our only planned stop today is at “Gravity Canyon” a place just east of Taihape which has the longest, fastest and highest flying fox in NZ.

The flying fox is basically a harness connected to a wire. You basically fly down the 1km wire at 160kph over a really high canyon.

After the 40 minutes walk up to the top we are strapped in and ready to go. The worst thing about it was hanging there waiting to go. The flight itself was quite exhilarating but not really that much of an adrenalin rush. For $190 is wasn’t the most exciting thing we’d done.

After paying for the DVD we hit the road again and continued south to Eastbourne (just east of Wellington) along route 1.

We arrived at 7.00pm at the Top 10 Park which wasn’t as nice as the others we had stayed in.

Ta Ta for now K & M

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Photos

Dolly the Van
At Huka Falls

Over the tops!
On the drive south of Taupo on route to Wellington

The Flying fox
This is the canyon at "Gravity Canyon"

Getting set to Fly
Kirsten is going to kill me if she see this photo!

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