Jet Boat (Luke) Olsen Hot Pools Massage (Rachel) Canyon Swing (Luke) Bit of a sleep in this-morning, 8:30 wake up. Drove into town to get lift to jet boating, Shotover Canyon (Luke) & so Rachel could find a sports massage place. The jet boating operations work like clockwork with hundreds of people coming though, they have an amazingly smooth process for getting everyone through while ensuring an amazing experience. As promised they g...

Skiing Back up to the Remarkables today - drive up again... This is the freakiest drive, especially with a speed limit of 50 (while there's no way it would be safe, the poor little car had the accelerator flat to the floor and still couldn't get much past 40 on the "straits"). There was 12cm fresh snow overnight, while making the driving up harder, made the experience while on the maintain amazing. For a few hours of the day, the mountain was cove...

Skiing To add to the jet lag - daylight savings commenced in NZ today! So up early, breakfast of NZ bread & honey (the NZ honey is different & better than Australia), then off up the remarkable to ski, we were going to catch the bus up - but the hotel reception advised that we needed to book in the day before (did try but they had closed) so we drove! WOW what a freeky drive (especially in a small Toyota - smaller than Corolla). 50Kmph is the legal s...

Flying, most of day Check into hotel Visit Queenstown Today was mainly flying - left early morning (00:45) to arrive in Sydney at around 6:30am Sydney time - flying into Sydney was eerie with red dust haze over everything - made the sun look really weird… after 3 hour wait - flew to Queenstown. Very optimistic flight crew ticket stated just over 3 hours, initially once on the place told 2:45, then about 10 minutes in the air, told 2 hours. An...