Waking up the following morning I found it extremely difficult to move my neck - evidently all the falls I'd taken whilst snowboarding had given me some kind of whiplash!! Luckily I had nothing planned for the day so just attempted to plan my forward travel in the US - something which proves more difficult than I thought as it is not particularly backpacker friendly. But that is something to worry about for another time. The remainder of my day was passed on th...

Our arrival in Queenstown wasn't too late and we stopped off on the way at the Kawarau bridge bungy, the first bungy site in the world, and where I was booking and paying for my Nevis bungy and canyon swing on Tuesday. The site itself is beautiful, suspended over a clear blue river in a narrow gorge with a vineyard over the road. The downside however is that you can watch people bungy and make yourself nervous about your own forthcoming fall of death. The Kawar...