Thursday 18 June 2009

EXTREMEly Pretty Setting

Between arriving in Queenstown and parking the car we'd seen two paragliders and a parascender. EXTREMEsportstastic.

We're only here for 24 hours or so, so we've not fully embraced the EXTREMEness of the town. We have been jetboating down the Shotover River though (I didn't think sounded that EXTREME before I came here, either - but it's one of the AwesomeFoursome, so there - that's us told). The whole 360 degree spins down a narrow canyon was made more EXTREME by the fact that the water was -5 and froze on impact. Which is nice.

Everyone talks about Queenstown for its EXTREMEness, no one really mentions that it's next to a massive lake and surrounded by snow-capped mountains. It's not the glamourous location of the Chelmer-Can confluence but it's not too shabby.

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