The day after that we had our bungy jump! This was the one that I really wasn't looking forward to and wasn't sure whether I really wanted to do it. It's the second highest bungy in the world at 134m. There was about 20 of us on the bus journey up to the Nevis and I was glad to see that everyone was just as nervous as me! When we got there we were put in our harness and then taken over by a platform to a cable car that is suspended in the air in between 2 mountains. This was wheer you had to jump from and it had a see through floor just in case you werent nervous enough already. The jumps were in weight order heaviest person to lightest so I was one of the last and had to wait ages and watch everyone which was quite agonizing. Everyone came up with a smile on their face though and said it was brilliant. Viv was first out of the 3 of us and he did actually spend a few seconds on the ledge swearing blind that he couldn't do it bless him! He did it eventually though and loved it. Then it was Chris who wasn't too scared he did it straight away then it was me. To jump, you have to shuffle out onto a ledge with your feet tied together and stand with your feet half on, half off the ledge ready to jump. I was absolutly terrified and did pause for a second thinking I couldn't do it but as soon as the guy shouted go (they are not allowed to push you you have to jump entirely yourself) I just dived off. It was the best feeling ever. At first it feels weird as you cant feel the bungy at all so it just feels like your jumping into thin air and everything in your mind is telling you not to. It was brilliant though and so much fun. After that we drove straight back to Christchurch.
We met a guy on our glacier walk called Will who we offered the 4th seat in our car if he needed a ride. He was going up to the north island the same route that we were so we picked him up from Christchurch in the morning and set off for Kaikoura, a small fishing village that has some of the best dolphin swimming and whale watching. We didn't get to do whale watching but we did do dolphin swimming which was fantastic. We got taken out on a boat and then stopped a couple of times to go for a swim in the sea (with wetsuits on as it was very very cold!) with the dolphins. There was loads of them, at least 30, all swimming around us. The guides told us to dive down with them and make noises to keep their attention so there was about 20 of us all swimming around making stupid noises out of our snorkels which was quite funny to watch! We drove to Blenheim in the afternoon but as it was a sunday, most things were closed and there wasn't that much to do. Blenheim is where all of the major wineries in New Zealand are so we planned to do some sort of tour the next day.
We ended up renting bikes for the day and cycling around the vineyards which was great and the weather was lovely too. We went to about 5 wineries which were all good, my favourite being a place called Mudhouse where you could also do olive oil and different flavoured snapps tasting! The views were really nice with all the vineyards and mountains in the background and it was one of my favourite days in New Zealand. That night we drove to Picton ready to catch our ferry early in the morning to Wellington in the north island.
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