If you go to Queenstown you are required to either jump out of an aeroplane, jump off a bridge, zoom up a river in a jetboat or bumble down a river in a raft. We chose the white water rafting.
First stage is to drive the Skippers Canyon Road - in our case the driver was Justine, who managed to squeeze a 4WD minibus with 5 rafts on a trailer on the back along this mad road, reckoned to be the 8th most dangerous road in the world. It's not a walk in the park!
Second stage is the black humour heavy safety briefing. Much easier.
Third stage is to fall out in a rapid, get sucked under by a tumbling current and become trapped looking up at the light realising that you are stuck under a tapering pair of rocks and thinking - oh, this is how people drown.
Fourth stage is to somehow get free, be thrown a safety line and dragged into a raft.
The rest of the trip passed mostly uneventfully...
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