One short trip we did was to drive in to Skipper Canyon. The ride in is kinda scary; a narrow, winding dirt road. On one side a massive cliff face and on the other a huge drop off into the bottom of the valley. But the view is pretty stunning, and being the extremely skilled driver I am; it was not a problem. We drove past the Skippers Jebtboat again and watched it roar up and down the river. If it wasn't so expensive I would have been keen to give it a go.
Nearing the camp ground there is an old wooden bridge that crosses the canyon. It was only just wide enough for us to drive the truck across, and was making all kinds of creaking sounds as we did. I was sure it was going to fall down.
Skippers was once a small mining town, and some of the buildings in the area have been restored. It is quite interesting to wander around and look at the old photos. There are a few ruins of old buildings scattered around also. But most awesome? All the wild Raspberries! We had a field day picking and eating them. We camped on a small open field and watched the sun set over the hills. The only thing we could complain about was the sandflys! They were everywhere; a huge pain in the ass.
We also made a trip to Mount Cook, which I will cover in the next post, but when we returned to Queenstown we decided to go skydiving! Well, Julia wanted to go and decided it was going to be my birthday present. We jumped with Nzone from 12,000 feet. It was so freakin' cool. Jumping out over Lake Wanaka and the huge mountains was really amazing. I totally recommend.
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