New Zealand Day 3

NZ Day 3  Monday January 20th

The weather has not been very good here but today was glorious so decided to take a trip on the Sky Gondola.

its higher than it looks and looks out over the town and the lake but ascends quite steeply.

This was taken looking out behind us as we went up.  The views from the top were magnificent.

on the same site was a bungy station and one brave young woman made the drop whilst we were there.

On our way back to the hotel we found a street for John.

We started on our lord of the Ring trail this afternoon, looking for the Pillars of the Kings on the river Kawarai and found part of it at AJ hackett's Bungy jumping site.  This is the original bungy jumping site apparently started back in the 80s.  it is a big venture now with a jump costing NZ$180.  They jump from the centre of the bridge and are held by their ankles - a lot more scary than the one at the Sky Gondola, although as john pointed out their jumping near rocks there and into the canyon here above the river.

John was also quoted as saying ' it doesn't look so bad'.  

NO HE DID NOT JUMP.  We did hear some teenagers encouraging their mother as she made her jump but most were youngsters.

We also found the'Ford of Bruinen' at Arrowtown, an old mining town.  

Several people were panning for gold along the river, but they seem to have gravel mostly but you can still find gold there if your lucky.

As you can see in the photos we have had 

very good weather 23 c.  it has been a very wet summer so far so we have been lucky.