Breakfree Highview Queenstown

... coach… yeah right!


We were heading for Queenstown today, and the roads were quite bendy, so being on the coach most of us were feeling a little ill. But seeing the west coast, pancake rocks and its rugged look reminded me of Cornwall and the Amalfi coast. We all agreed that New Zealand was like many countries in one with its scenery, and that when we considered all the places in the world, all the west coast of these countries were always the ...

... as most of the girls on the bus wanted no part of the jump.

Queenstown itself is just an awesome town. It is very similar to Whistler in that it is a smaller mountain town that is very expensive and growing rapidly. The nightlife is awesome with many bars and some great food joints. That night we went on a well deserved pub crawl with some of the people from the Kiwi bus. We went to about 6 bars in Queenstown and Jen was pretty happy to have been served some Pizza late in ...

... another thermal hot spot and watched the Geysers and ting. We cracked on to Taupo and arrived early afternoon, we went for a walk to Huka Falls, which was a lovely walk and the falls themselves were pretty amazing. The evening was ok but for the second motor park in a row there was a *******n school trip staying there, how do those little ***** make so much bloody noise! Next morning we got up to watch the dam open up and the water charge through the valley ...

... combo……Queenstown adventure a complete write off……..unhappy and feeling awful!!

Friday 24th July……..the antibiotics are kicking in and feeling better. Decided to salvage the little time I had left and convinced myself into doing a bungee over the Kawarau bridge, the worlds first bungee site. Got picked up by the coach and headed out of town for about 20 minutes. Got weighed up and headed to the platform. As usual the first person to jump ...

... others that had stayed behind in Wanaka as Cardrona is almost in the middle of the two towns, and the best in the area for beginners as it has some really wide slopes, which is why we chose it.

We returned our equipment at the end of the day and boarded the bus at 4pm back to Queenstown. I think everyone pretty much everyone except the driver was asleep on the way back.

... the most amount of wool ever in a single shear! Wait it gets better, so they decided to do a live shearing to make some money for charity and then when an ice burg floated up from the south pole they flew Shrek out on a helicopter and shore him live on the ice burg!!!
WOW! you know your in New Zealand when they have a famous sheep!

We stopped off at Te Anu for a break and to pick up some other passenger and then it was off to the Wildlife Park to look at some rare ...

... cord and that everyone would laugh at you when you were being pulled up upside down. The guide also told us that out of the twenty five of us, around four would fail to pull the cord. So I really didn't want to be one of those four. When it came to the second bounce, I pulled the cord outwards, but nothing happened. Given the small amount of time to pull the cord, before you started to fall again, I furiously started yanking the cord ...

... when they came to see me off before the jump to give me a hug and distract me a bit from my nerves!! ;o) thanks my lovelies! I hop back on the bus (after very little sleep...) and we're on our way to Chrischurch - the clouds have lifted and we have a stunning view of the fresh snow capped mountains surrounding Queenstown... the weather had been poor and so suddenly I wished I was staying a little longer to explore the beautiful surroundings!....

... odd it is that he's back so early. It wasn't all that long ago since he went out, fingers crossed, in anticipation of night-three with 'the difficult girl'. We spoke about it only a few days ago, after his second failing. 'Third time lucky' is what we agreed.



He walks towards me with a coy smile. My face immediately lights up. I nod and ask, 'yeah?' His grin ...

... Almighty-esk, I'd recommend it - the cinema was a cute little thing too, really tiny.



29th June



Today was a shopping day, I bought a new lens cap for my camera that I lost down the west coast and some really hot Ripcurl boots, that are black and kinda suede, but really hot!!!



Tomorrow is a big day, I am actually going to take some photos of Queenstown, I have been here over a week and haven't managed to take any yet!!!