From Wanaka it was onto Queenstown, where we stayed for 2 days. This was definitely a place where we would have stayed for longer if we'd had the time. Known as the adventure capital of New Zealand, there were just so many things that we could've done. We did manage to do one extreme activity though, something called the Ledge Sky Swing. We took a gondola up to the top of a mountain and trotted off down to the swing site, which is right next t...

There comes a time in everyone's life where they think to themselves that it would be a good idea to throw them themselves out of a plane. No? Well when we moved further down the west coast from Franz Josef to a beautiful town called Wanaka, for some reason that is exactly the thought we had. I'd never really been keen on doing a skydive, although Chris always had and was actually going to do his over the glaciers of Franz Josef, had it not be...