New Zealand Update #3:The Extremening

Just five hours or so until Tim and I make our way to Christchurch to hop a plane to Hawaii.

It's movie time!

But first, a hangover from the last update with photos of the ski field, Tim shot this >>movie<< (.AVI, 4.3Mb) with his excellent camerawork, of me going slowly down a hill. Check my style! Or lack of it in this film. We would have styled it up with our mad skills, but skiing while holding the camera in one hand is tricky when you're trying to achieve the afore-mentioned excellent camerawork.

Another hangover from the last update, me about to be hurled out of plane, all tensed up, buckled up, wind-rushed and strapped in, and sitting on dude's lap:

And now, with Thrift-Vision from the company's website:


I bungy-jumped today:

Confusingly, it's more difficult in some ways than skydiving.
Once you've got the initial shock of jumping off a ledge that's a comprehensible distance from the ground/water level, it's great fun.
Here's a >>video<< (.WMV, 770k)
Listen out for me going "Arghhhhhh!" down into the canyon bottom, then laughing manically. Great fun. Once again, it was all over so quickly I'd like to do it again to actually get the sense of what it's really like.

And then, we luged.
Above Queenstown...

you take a cablecar (and chairlift):

up to the downhill Luge tracks:

They're like teatrays with castors on the bottom, with handlebars for (limited) steering, and brakes. They're a scary amount of fun. Here's a >>video<< of me pulling in at the bottom.

That's it for now, we'll update you lot soon hopefully.

Bye for now.

- Lee.