Queenstown Oct 26th

I've been in mountaneous towns recently, like Wanaka and Queenstown on the South Island. They are just gorgeous, I can't believe the views! Queenstown has tons of activities, you could spend ages here, and most of them are adrenalin-packed, so it's been quite awesome.

I got to realize my dream of bungy jumping, four times! Bungy jumping was invented here by AJ Hackett and I jumped where the first bungy jump was, and got a combo deal for two other famous jumps. The first was a bridge, then a huuuuge canyon called Nevis which is 134 meters or something like that, and then what is called the "ledge" where you run off onto a view of the city. The ledge is the last one I have left, but I did the nevis two times since they let me jump again for very cheap. I absolutely love bungy jumping! I seem to have an eerily lack of fear of heights, since I have absolutely no hesitation throwing myself off and wasn't really nervous for any of the jumps, while other people were having massive panic attacks. Everyone got a kick out of the fact that I would be chatting up the technicians and then hop over the edge and just go. So go figure!

My bus route is going to go south to Milford Sound and to the southern-most point and then back to Queenstown and up to the north of the south island. I'm going to see how things go, but I may pop back on the bus once I've seen the south island (it's an unlimited pass for 12 months!) and come back and work in Queenstown depending on factors. In any case, I've been having a great time with the people I've met, there's so many interesting people traveling around, but about 75% are from the UK or Ireland as I may have mentioned, so if I'm picking up any type of slang, it's english. Oh, also, I've bandaged my foot up so it's walkable, and while I prolly shouldn't climb Mt.Everest with it like that, it's good enough to get around, which is at least helpful.