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Punakaiki, New Zealand


Rocked up the west coast for a couple of day passing through Fox the town where last time I climbed on the Glacier, this time just chilld out in the town with JP while the others did the climb...

Arrived in Punakaiki for 2 nights, started feeling a bit rough, must have been coming down with something ! not surprising its been non stop for so long !


Did a Horse trek into the rain forest then down onto the beach with some of the group, they guy at the stables got me a spare Horse out as I was a late entry, he said it used to be wild but they had trained it up a bit...I could tell as mine was a bit frisky while all the other horses where half asleep !

anyway went treking for a bout 3 hours, had a great time, I could tell my horse 'Billy' was a wild one, as he kept running off and charging through the river crossings, such a good time really hope I get the chance to do it again!



Finished the night off with a campfire a few beers and the News that Liverpool had won...Brilliant !

Our two day stop in Abel Tasman Nt Park, was my last 2 nights camping on the tour !

The amazing backdrop of one of the best looking coastlines you will ever see !!

in addition to that I got to fly the Pitt Special a stunt plane that can do acrobatic stunts like loops, barrel rolls, and flying straight up until it stalls then free falling !!

Totally awesome ! even beats skydiving for pure adrenalin !

I did a 15 minute flight and it was just unbelievable as the pilot takes off and hands control over to you...he just says loop it, spin it, fly upright etc...

He said afterwards all you could hear on the radio frequency was me laughing as we did loops at 180mph




permalink written by  tomrendell on April 6, 2007 from Punakaiki, New Zealand
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