Wanaka, Queenstown & Glenorchy
Booked into a cool hostel called the Purple Cow in Wanaka - really nice place - the dorms are like miniture chalets with shared kitchenettes. Swam in the lake and moved onto Lake Wahea the next day where we sunbathed and read on our own beach...cept for the steady flow of powerboat junkies zooming past every 10 mins. Drove to Queenstown that afternoon deciding to skip Milford Sound (I know - it's meant to be amazing, but it was going to take 5-6 hrs to get there each way, and we didnt have time to stay over so it just seemed ridiculous).
Stayed in Southern Laughter in Queenstown - v.nice cept for the enslaught of "adrenaline junkie bungee jumping idiots" that seem to swarm the place... although I think these people are everywhere in Queenstown - I dont think I should blame the hostel. Next day, Phoebe and I embarked on a full-day horse trek around Lords of the Rings country - Glenorchy. It was stunning - i was on Oscar (a horse used in the actual film - he was one of the Rohan Riders' horse!!), and Phoebe was on Jackie (Chan - he likes to kick...). We were in a group with people that were obviously more experienced than us, and perhaps we should have backed out, but we didn't.
Goose-duck thing in Queenstown
View of Glenorchy
Bungeye caught in a stampede of mental sheep
About 3 hours into the ride, we were cantering on the only road of the trek so far, and Phoebe's horse shied, tossing her onto the gravel. She was screaming in pain, and as it was lower back we called the ambulance. Lucky we did, as it turned out (4 hours in the scroching sun, 2 ambulances and 1 x-ray later) she had broken her sacrum - the bone linking the spine to the coccyx. She got transferred to Invercargil Hospital in case she needed a CT Scan, and I followed in Bungeye. Luckily she had no internal or nerve damage, but she was in a lot of pain and became a little bit of a morphine junkie... She was supposed to be flying out of NZ to go to Japan on 31st, but will be in hospital till about 3rd Feb, and will need to stay with me for about 2 weeks in Dunedin until she's well enough to go back to the UK. It will take 3-6 months for the bone to fuse, and although she will be able to walk fine it's going to be sore for a long time. The poor poor thing.
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Stayed in Southern Laughter in Queenstown - v.nice cept for the enslaught of "adrenaline junkie bungee jumping idiots" that seem to swarm the place... although I think these people are everywhere in Queenstown - I dont think I should blame the hostel. Next day, Phoebe and I embarked on a full-day horse trek around Lords of the Rings country - Glenorchy. It was stunning - i was on Oscar (a horse used in the actual film - he was one of the Rohan Riders' horse!!), and Phoebe was on Jackie (Chan - he likes to kick...). We were in a group with people that were obviously more experienced than us, and perhaps we should have backed out, but we didn't.
Goose-duck thing in Queenstown
View of Glenorchy
Bungeye caught in a stampede of mental sheep
About 3 hours into the ride, we were cantering on the only road of the trek so far, and Phoebe's horse shied, tossing her onto the gravel. She was screaming in pain, and as it was lower back we called the ambulance. Lucky we did, as it turned out (4 hours in the scroching sun, 2 ambulances and 1 x-ray later) she had broken her sacrum - the bone linking the spine to the coccyx. She got transferred to Invercargil Hospital in case she needed a CT Scan, and I followed in Bungeye. Luckily she had no internal or nerve damage, but she was in a lot of pain and became a little bit of a morphine junkie... She was supposed to be flying out of NZ to go to Japan on 31st, but will be in hospital till about 3rd Feb, and will need to stay with me for about 2 weeks in Dunedin until she's well enough to go back to the UK. It will take 3-6 months for the bone to fuse, and although she will be able to walk fine it's going to be sore for a long time. The poor poor thing.
Before.
During.
After.
posted by Anna at 2:49 PM
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