September 25 Milford Sound - Te Anau - Queenstown

After a bit of a sleepless night - the dude in the next cabin snoring all night and me thinking he was having a long shower throughout the night (It was a rain storm) - wake up at 6:30am.

We continue our cruise to the end of Milford Sound till the open ocean before we head back. It's raining heavily and the wind is blowing at 25 knots (60kph). So it's pretty rough. The tour is great non the less. We see a waterfall that is suspended in mid-air. The wind is so strong it is falling and instead being forced upwards. It's cool. See another Fiordland crested penguin.

We get dropped off the an underwater observatory and get to see what is in the Sound.

Get taken back to shore and drive to Te Anau to pick up our bags, which we were not allowed to take onto the cruise.

Drive on to Queenstown. Takes about 7 hrs. We are really tired.

Queenstown being probably the world's adventure capital, we book ourselves to do the Shotover CanyonSwing http://www.canyonswing.co.nz for the next day. If you have seen Jack Osbourne Adrenaline Junkie 2 you will know what it is. It's a swing, but you have to jump off a 109m platform. Very scary.

Take a ride up the gondola, which gives sweet views of the city.

Meet our roommates - 2 German girls and an American girl and their friend, an Aussie. They ask us if we want to go out. We say yes, but only for one.....after a session of mad dancing, drunken karaoke, drunken hedge diving, arrive back at 4am. Very pissed!!!

What is Drunken Hedge Diving?

Exactly what it says - jumping into a hedge. The Aussie guy runs and jumps head first into a hedge. The American girl follows. Net and I look at each other and join in. It's funny at the time. Net gets so into it she has bruises all over her and I whack my head on a bumper of a car. (like being a student again)