The Kawarau Bridge near Queenstown NZ is a lovely bridge that used to be the main line for traffic travel up and down the central part of NZ. They still have a number of single lane bridges here, but this one is unique with cable construction and solid wood for pavement.
Now closed to vehicular traffic, it is home to one of most fascinating rituals, in which humans will lash themselves to a huge stretchy cable and launch themselves off of this bridge, into the gaping gully below, all for the low, low price of $160 NZD.
See the tiny dingy at the bottom right? The tiny little yellow blob? Yeah, that's where they get your evicerated body after you hurtle through space, into oblivion, or sometimes the water, at the bottom.
And because kiwi's have a great sense of the strange, these are the toilet signs in the visitor center. Puts a whole new spin on bungy wouldn't you say?
2 comments:
I don't want to use that toilet! Yikes!
NNFF - I almost texted you the other night about a sunset and rainbow... it was double excellent. Enjoyed the pictures here.
Happy Sabbath and many blessings.
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