So I finally made it to Queenstown. Queenstown is the most amazing city I have ever seen. The best way to describe how the city looks is like Vail on steroids. The city itself is a ski town during the winter and an outdoor extreme sports wonderland during the summer. Every other store is either a board shop or a Bungy company. Literally anything you could ever want to do is in this one small town. The town sits on top of a hillside around a lake, so there are also many options for water sports which makes it literally the perfect place if you are into the outdoors. It definitely is going to be hard to leave. Speaking of bungy, later on today I am actually going to Bungy jump for the first time. I am doing it at this jump site called "Nevis", the tallest jump in New Zealand at about 140 meters tall. The free fall is almost eight seconds long. I think it is the second tallest in the world to some place in South Africa. Definitely excited about that. Bungy was actually invented by two New Zealanders and the one I am jumping at is still owned and operated by one of the two. But seeing as it has been a while since my last update I have some experiences to write about. Since I last blogged I have gone all the way from Wellington in the North Island to Queenstown in the South. I took a ferry between the two islands and traveled down the West Coast of New Zealand, which is known as being sort of the "Wild West" of the country. Not many people live in the area, but the amount of outdoor beauty and activities along the coast is amazing. We stopped in a few beach towns and enjoyed the nice weather and sights before arriving at Abel Tasman, which is a National Park. The park is essentially a large peninsula that runs along a number or bays in the Tasman Sea. The water in the bays is one of the most amazing colors I have ever seen, a mix between bright light blue and green in some places. I spent a few days there hiking along the trails that run along the cliffs of the bay and taking breaks to lay on the beach and go swimming in the perfect temperature water. After a few days relaxing and doing amazing day hikes I then proceeded on to Franz Josef, one of the two largest glaciers in New Zealand. There are more than 3,000 glaciers here so they are a popular destination. Myself and a group of other travelers hired a guide to take us up into the glacier. The day that we went was amazing weather, so we were able to get very high up on to the glacier. We wore crampons, or spikes on your boots, and traversed the huge block of ice for a few hours, taking breaks to go crawling through ice caves and sliding through crevices. It was not a day for the claustrophobic. In some spots we went so far down into the glacier that the ice turned a dark blue, almost green color, which is due to the compression of the air bubbles in the ice. The town itself of Franz Josef was also very cool because it say in a valley that looked up to the glacier and a few other mountains. Then after a few hours drive, here I am in Queenstown. On a side note, if there is one thing I would say to sum up my travels through New Zealand so far is that the country is amazing in terms of its topography and landforms. Literally everywhere you go there is something that is worth traveling miles to go see, but we just drive past on our way through the countryside. If I tried to take pictures of everything I saw I definitely would have filled up my memory card by now. Anyways, I have to go get some lunch before my jump later on today. Hopefully I make it back to blog again.