Day 13 - 9th Aug 2007

Day 2 of skiing and we headed for the next nearest ski area - The Remarkables. The journey up was a bit more hair-raising than Coronet as the road was "unsealed" and not many crash barriers. Once at the top, we had a quick breakfast (but the food was pretty poor) before hitting the slopes. Remarkables is smaller than Coronet and we covered all the slopes pretty quickly. The weather was definitely on the turn so we skied hard until around 1pm before heading back down the mountain before it got too bad.

Once down we had a quick lunch and then headed for the Shotover Jet Boat ride. This was definitely a highlight of the trip so far - the boat travels at impossibly high speed up the Kamuara River gorge between very tight rocky cliffs. The drivers really know what they're doing. Everyone came off soaked but with big grins!

Helen says-

we went skking agen today but only for a half day bcos we had a very fun afternoon (im not bin sarcastic it was amazingly fun more bout that in a mo) neway we got ther and teh first run we had to dowas one of the hardest becasue there was a special lift which sed advanced skiiers and borders only and that was dawnting enough and wen we gt to the top mum didnt want to ski dwn a thin path so we went the other way and ended up on the top of a ridgre on the mountain on the one side you looked dwn u cud c queenstwn and then on the other side you could c the run we were about to do which looked almost straight dwn but with a little hill at the end we went dwn it fine but later on we did that run agen and bcos the lst time i went dwn i didnt get quite to the other side of the hill i throt i shud take a longer run up and go in a straight line for longer before the hill. So i did the top bit fine then , a little bit too early for me , i got into my tuck and went for it i was goin faster than i ever had before and the wind pushed me bkwards i throt i was going to fall over and that wud have hurt and then i wud have had to have climbed this hill but , i dnt no how, i sat on the bk of my skis and wen i got to the top of the hill i managed to stand bk up fine that was the best trick i had ever done and noone even saw it nicht so gut.

neway in the afternoon we went on the shotover jet which is a jetboat ride which goes along a river and thru a valley and goes really fast and gets really close to the rocks and you are expected to get wet so they give you these sexy fisherman overalls type things which i looked absolutely amazing in not lol yh but it was still really fun probably the best so far.