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2003 - New Zealand skydive etc.
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Huka falls.











Tried this when I was waiting around in Taupo for skydiving. This crazy boat can do 360' turns and the crazy captain cannot stop driving full speed a few centimeter away from every rock and tree in the river. Good fun. (me at the back to the left in the photo).


After a couple days in Rotorua I headed down to Taupo for skydive, bungy-jump and cappucino with cinnamon (skydive was really awsome, bungy-jump and cinnamon-cappucino is enough to try once.).



The over-confident smile of having listened to several seconds of instructions.

Roy, my tandem jump buddy, seems reassuringly calm that everything will go fine.



Ready for 12.000 feet.













The wicked face of an adrenaline over-dose..


Severely addictive...gotta have one more hit...just one more.

Severely addictive...gotta have one more hit...just one more..

Gary, my jump buddy for jump number two.

Clear skies.













Me big Happy!


The next day. 47 meter bungee jump over the Waikato river in Taupo. Me no happy

The next day. 47 meter bungee jump over the Waikato river in Taupo. Me no happy.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaammmhaha.uh - why does my neck hurt?...


Over in Waitomo near the west coast. Abseiling 100m down into The Lost World cave. I was hoping to do an all-day trip that starts with this abseil and then climbing and swimming the difficult way back up to the surface. Unfortunately it was raining quite a bit and they had had to send a rescue team for the group the day before so we had to take the dry way back up

Over in Waitomo near the west coast. Abseiling 100m down into The Lost World cave. I was hoping to do an all-day trip that starts with this abseil and then climbing and swimming the difficult way back up to the surface. Unfortunately it was raining quite a bit and they had had to send a rescue team for the group the day before so we had to take the dry way back up.

The abseil down takes about 20 minutes. The cave definitely lives up to it's name - you really feel like you're entering a lost world abseiling down into this place. In the darker parts of the cave you can see the glowworms - little insect larvae sitting in the cave ceiling glowing with a strange blue light. Almost makes it look like a starry sky.. After hanging still glowing for half a year or more they turn into a little insect, mate, lay eggs and die within 2 or 3 days.

If this was something living.. - wonder what it would sound like?

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