Fear and loathing in Queenstown

Queenstown
Originally uploaded by Carrie & Eddie.

A serene photo of Queenstown which in no way reflects our activities there. Even pathetic couch potatoes like us end up engaging in all manner of craziness in Queenstown. We went canyoning - abseiling into a canyon and getting to the other end by throwing ourselves off rocks, jumping forwards, backwards and sideways into rock pools and plummeting down canyon streams. We followed this by a half-hour ride on a jetboat which zips along the canyon, terrifyingly close to the sheer, deadly rocks at 70 miles per hour. To top it all off, we went to watch people bungy jump - from a safe distance, which was just how we liked it.