5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 BUNGY!

Those of you reading who knew me before I left England will know how much I was looking forward to bungy jumping. Well I've done it now and it was awesome! I thought I'd slap some photos of me dangling like a pillock on the end of a giant rubber band on here so that you can all see that I didn't bottle it. I started today on the 134 metre Nevis jump which was the only one I was a little anxious about. We got taken across to the cable car in the middle of the valley and harnessed up. Then once it was my turn it was all over pretty quickly. I shuffled to the end of the ledge with a look of terror on my face (you can see this on the dvd) when he said jump, I jumped. The fall was incredible. Because you get about 10 seconds of freefall, you really have time to think "what the hell am I doing!?". I bounced back up trying to look cool for the video, but when the bit that brought me back up locked in place I bricked it and grabbed on for dear life. Everything went great and I shook for about half an hour.

Next up was the ledge jump. The view over Queenstown is stunning, the giant lake and the surrounding mountains were and incredible backdrop for one of best things I've ever done. It's only 47 metres, but becasue you have a body harness on this one there are more things you can do with it. I decided as it was my last jump (until Auckland - can anyone say addict?) to do something special. So I tried a somersault. I was never particularly good at gym, but luckily everything went perfectly. I managed 2 full rotations until the rubber band flew out of my hands and I was on my way back up. I can't recommend doing this highly enough (I might do one in Vegas too), the mental energy it took me to push myself to do it meant that it was so rewarding, right now I feel like I could take on the world.

As for my tramp in the bush (slightly slower paced than the last 2 days), I'm currently set to go the day after tomorrow, so I should be back the 13th or 14th depending on the route I take.