Our first activity of the day was jet boating on the Shotover River. We were on the 8:30am boat, which was lucky despite the early hour as the 9am boat was cancelled due to the rain. Yes once again it was raining when we were out on a jet boat and at full speed the rain was like hail. Despite this it was great fun and really exhilarating. The boats are incredibly quick and really agile. We were centimeters away from the canyon walls at times (that's literally...

We nervously waited for our hang gliding pick up outside our campsite, questioning why we had booked ourselves onto such a crazy activity! The van came and in we went. There were three others who were also willing to jump off a cliff. Although Hang Gliding had been something Andrea had wanted to do since seeing it on the TV as a child, the practicalities of being strapped to (essentially) a kite and jumping off a cliff hadn't been considered at the time of bo...