"The Ledge" was awesome! There wasn't really time to get nervous; as soon as I was harnessed up, dragged to the edge to look down, told to smile at the camera and given the good advice of "don't hold back lad, just go for it", I found myself gaining a 6 yard run up and then sprinting toward the edge to perform perhaps the scariest swan-dive ever!
The sensation is just like those dreams where you're falling and your stomach goes sick, only instead of waking up, the bungy snaps you at the waist and you're flying upward towards the base of the platform. For a fraction of a second during that free-fall I thought 'this is it, those rocks are getting awfully close!' but then of course, 'phew, that cord of elastic-bands worked then!' Whilst dangling there waiting to get pulled back up, I did the thing that came naturally and hung on to the bungy for dear life! The weather was stunning, so the scenery looked amazing from up above Queenstown.
To 'come down' after that we decided to have a go on the Luge - a concrete track which you 'drive' down on 3-wheeled sledge-type things (luges I guess?), followed by a game of crazy golf. T'was good fun!
We're now in Invercargill after cycling about 110km to Lumsden yesterday (it took about 4 and a half hours) and another 85km today. The scenery coming out of QT was great as we followed the edge of Lake Wakatipu and the precipitous Remarkables mountain range. However the rest of the way has been a combination of Scotland and the Isle of Man (rolling hills with plenty of sheep; then a low flat plain for most of today's cyling). The long straight roads and lack of scenery combined with a nasty headwind made today easily the most tedious and we were both glad to arrive in Invercargill.
The plan for tomorrow is a 60km 'time trial' to Bluff and back. Then Baz has to catch a plane. I think I'll be heading west to take in the Southern Scenic Route to Te Anau, after which I'll head to Milford Sound.
I'll try freeze framing my video of the bungy and post them on blog at later date. For now here's a few pics of last few days.
The sensation is just like those dreams where you're falling and your stomach goes sick, only instead of waking up, the bungy snaps you at the waist and you're flying upward towards the base of the platform. For a fraction of a second during that free-fall I thought 'this is it, those rocks are getting awfully close!' but then of course, 'phew, that cord of elastic-bands worked then!' Whilst dangling there waiting to get pulled back up, I did the thing that came naturally and hung on to the bungy for dear life! The weather was stunning, so the scenery looked amazing from up above Queenstown.
To 'come down' after that we decided to have a go on the Luge - a concrete track which you 'drive' down on 3-wheeled sledge-type things (luges I guess?), followed by a game of crazy golf. T'was good fun!
We're now in Invercargill after cycling about 110km to Lumsden yesterday (it took about 4 and a half hours) and another 85km today. The scenery coming out of QT was great as we followed the edge of Lake Wakatipu and the precipitous Remarkables mountain range. However the rest of the way has been a combination of Scotland and the Isle of Man (rolling hills with plenty of sheep; then a low flat plain for most of today's cyling). The long straight roads and lack of scenery combined with a nasty headwind made today easily the most tedious and we were both glad to arrive in Invercargill.
The plan for tomorrow is a 60km 'time trial' to Bluff and back. Then Baz has to catch a plane. I think I'll be heading west to take in the Southern Scenic Route to Te Anau, after which I'll head to Milford Sound.
I'll try freeze framing my video of the bungy and post them on blog at later date. For now here's a few pics of last few days.
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