I woke up early doors, because of the white water rafting trip, around 6:45 and this was the view that I saw as I poked my sleepy head out of my tent !

Rangitata sunrise

Early Doors

Had breakfast, packed up my tent, and went up to the hut with the others to go Rafting !

They explained it was a two hour trip coasting down the river at first going through, grades 1-4 then climaxing with two grade 5 rapids, the highest grade rapids you can take people down on commercial trips !

Full speed!!

the trip was awesome, and we managed to stay afloat the entire trip, at one point we were seconds from being sucked into a grade 6 which would have meant certain "flippidge" and everyone going overboard !!

Riding the grade 5 rapids

Survived !!

We had seen grade 6 rapids at the Hukka falls the other day, and I love ferice water but I wouldn't have wanted to go though that on a boat !

after the trip down the river we went for a short hike around part of the Tekapo Lake, with amazing views of the Alps and the first look from long distance of Mt Cook...

All the gang hiking in Tekapo

Lake Tekapo

after the Hike, a few of us biked the rest of the way in to camp, as this was a bush camp and had no showers, so we dived into the lake when we got there to cool down!

Swimming in lake Pukaki !

The Alps (mt cook)

totally knackered, Rafting, Hiking, Biking and Swimming all in one day !

JP and his pancake !

pancakes!

we topped the day off with Pancakes, a cold beer and the best sunset I have ever seen.

The Southern Alps at sunset

Sunset at lake Pukaki