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Monday, April 22, 2002
the board's been fixed and its actually better. only a week left here, sad sad.
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Monday, April 15, 2002
jumped the Nevis Highwire bungy jump at queenstown, new zealand today. if you've never been there its a pod suspended over a gorge, 143 meters above the nevis river. its the highest bungy jump in austrilazia. you get to the pod in this open air grill bottomed basket along the wire and the wait your turn standing in this glass bottomed metal pod shitting bricks. it was THE most terrifying experience of my entire life - i've never done a sky dive but i'm told that this is worse. when you are called you sit in this black chair and are strapped to the cord. you then stand on the edge, on this ledge and on the count of three you're expected to throw yourself off. holy mother of god, the rush you get is unbelievable, and the feeling of piece for the rest of the day was amazing. i don't care that they tell you its totally safe - its the most amazing experience and has got to be on the list for one of the 500 things you've got to do before you die.
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Saturday, April 13, 2002
well headed up to Kaikoura on the east coast on thursday evening then got up at 5:00am the next day to go swimming with a group of about 300 dolphins - beautiful. drove down to christchurch then on to Timaru in the hope of finding somewhere to stay, everywhere was full so had to sleep in the car. anyhow headed up to lake Tekapo this morning, and i guess yea you'd have to call it...beautiful. hope to get to queenstown tonight, but maybe i'll stop off at mount cook, too many places to go and not enough time - too bad hey.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2002
arrived in new zealand this morning, didn't sleep wink last night as was up half the night drinking round at the wamberal beach hut. this place reminds me of the uk - well christchurch does anyhow - hired a car going down south tomorrow morning
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Monday, April 08, 2002
off to new zealand on wednesday
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Sunday, April 07, 2002
found someone to buy my car today, need to sell it before i leave, just need to fix the exhaust
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got up early this morning, at the ‘crack ‘a dawn’ (05:30am mind) to get up to soldiers beach and have a calm day break morning surf, the water usually being ‘glassy’ that time of day, driving past the local beach not so much as a ripple to be seen, just a warm red sun rising over a misty sea, beautiful in fact. Anyhow on we drove to soldiers – can be quite good I’m told – and there we saw some decent swell. We picked our spot and paddled out. jim, being a fast paddler, and a lucky bastard at that, quickly cut his way through the breakers sliding through a calm point between to colliding waves and sat on his board beyond the white water - waiting for his moment. Just behind him, and with my timing all wrong, the two same waves joined together and swept me straight back to the shore. And could I get out again? Could I hell. Tried another four times each time sent straight back to shore and almost drowned in the process. So I sat and watched.
Anyhow we decided to try somewhere up the coast and found a calm sandy beach, glassy water and some good peeling waves. Felt like I was filming ‘endless summer’. Headed home had a pie and headed for steph and caths house, on the beach. Caught a few more waves and then bang – broke my board! Holy mother @&%$$, not even big waves just a few dumpers but I think the board had maybe had it's nose dug into the sand one too many times. just too bad
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