CATCH-UP: 20 – 22 AUG . . .
NZ | Mike & Jane August 23, 2010
Aug
23
2010
Thursday and Friday nights were spent at Lake Taupo – NZ’s largest lake, which is actually a crater full of H2O!! And this is the place of ‘One Small Edge-Out For Mike, 12000feet for Video-Kind’!!
Having wanted to do a skydive for years, I (Mike) finally got the chance to do it in one of the best setting poss: Lake Taupo is the size of Singapore, and to freefall for almost a minute over it then “slowly” decend for another 5mins was too much to miss!
Some pix have already been posted and more will follow, but summise to say it was one of the best experiences of my life. And coming the day after being
Not my best look: a bit Clarkson!!
hundreds of feet BELOW the earth made it even more surreal! Back on terra-firma was Jane and camera and sweaty palms! I was last into the flimsy little plane (sitting next to the seethrough perspex shutter door!!) and therefore first out!!
Needless to say that rest of that night and a considerable part of the Friday was spent Hi-Five-ing with the others that did it too!!
And on top of all this, the hostel company, BASE, launched their online booking for 10Night Saver Deals the day before and Jane and I turned out to be the first people in the whole of New Zealand to use it! So we got upgraded from dorm to private double en-suite; got $50 bar tab, cheese platter and bottle of fizz and our pix on their company website sometime soon!!!
By Mum, August 24, 2010 @ 08:16
Some people have the luck of the devil… after all the downs and ups of the previous days I expect you enjoyed the privacy and relative comfort of your own ’suite’ for a change. Dread to think what pictures the hostel company will choose to use! Hope the crossing of the Cook Straits was not too rough – and did the dolphin guide you into port according to the legend?! Keep the blog going – it makes good reading.