Queenstown -Bungy!

On our second full day here we watched Liam jump 43m off of a perfectly good bridge (like jumping off a 13 story building)!! I had done the same bungy jump 20 years ago and now here I was watching Liam do this crazy thing!! He did a better job of it than I - he didn't scream at all and he actually jumped off the platform when they counted down from 3!! He even said it was 'Fun in an exhilarating kind of way'! (And he has the video to prove it!!)
Afterwards we drove up 13km of gravel switchbacks to the Remarkables ski area. The Remarkables, which form the backdrop to the city of Queenstown, are a very impressive mountain range; jagged, craggy, steep and rocky. We hiked up beyond the chairlifts to Lake Alta, crystal clear and ice cold. Rory was too busy catching grasshoppers to even consider a swim! Nigel and I scrambled up another couple hundred meters, through a scree field, to the top of the ridge surrounding the lake to get some even better views.
Finally back down, we enjoyed a drink on Lake Wakatipu's waterfront, watching the TSS Earnslaw, the last remaining coal-fired passenger vessel in the Southern Hemisphere, take its evening cruise.