Mission Complete

Kia ora!
So this country never ceases to amaze me. We ended our project on the Motuihe island on August 5 accomplishing a lot! Our project achievements including (keep in mind there were only 8 of us) planting 2800 trees, removing 25 meters of old fencing, creating 50 meters of hiking trail, extreme weed removal of 70 meters of hillside, planting thousands of seedlings into root trainers and rescuing 300 kakabeak plants from pests, doing a decent sum of beach and nursery clean up, and installing post markers for the trails. Aside from this we've created a lot of good memories during our 2 weeks on the island.
We spent our last night in Auckland participating in a bar crawl and celebrating one of our members birthdays...goood night. The next morning we hopped on a flight to the south island, Queenstown. I can already say this is probably my favorite town, its so gorgeous, sitting at the base of the snow capped mountains, it's fit for a queen (hence why its called Queenstown. It is also the adventure capital of the world, and if you want to do something outrageous, this is the place to do it, and I am certainly living it up! Our first night in the town, we did yet another bar crawl and I got to experience minus 5, an ice bar that was so cool, litereally :) everything was made of ice, including the cups we drank out of.
As for today, we spent to morning jet boating on one of the rivers, doing intense things from 360 degree whip turns to dodging the rocks. Then in the afternoon, a bunch of us went bungy jumping on the 2nd highest jump in the world, but this is also where the bungy jump originated! and I'm doing it again tonight....in the dark! call me an adrenaline junkie I guess ;) Tonight, I think we might take it easy and watch some parkour snowboarding and eat at a local pub. That's all for now, but there will definitely be more posts to come.

E noho ra!