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Descending into Skippers Canyon
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Thunderbird 2... our trusty steed for the tricky road
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Full of schist
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You can see the road snaking down out of shot
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Remains of the pub
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Choppers dropping off rafters
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Need I say more...?
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Where cowboy chopper pilots become better cowboy chopper pilots
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a failed attempt to tame the river... lasted only 3 months before it was destroyed by flooding
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Ashley our capable jet boat pilot... you need 6000 hours of jet boat experience to be able to run this section of the river
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Formerly the worlds highest bungy at 104 metres. As soon as the next highest thing pops up the old one is sent broke
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looks like fun, but not much margin for error
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80kph was the fastest we went down river
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Rooster tail jet boat style
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walking over the pipeline bungy
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we went sideways through the section on the left and there couldn't have been much more than 1.5 metres at either end of the boat
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Shot upstream from the pipeline bungy
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From the museum run by a family who have spent 5 generations in the canyon
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Hand operated pedestal drill
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Set of scales
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The full view of the defunct pipeline bungy platform. Nevis is now 134metres
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Panning for gold. Only the guide managed to find a spec and gave it to the couple on their honeymoon
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I was equally skeptical but they generally find 3-4 specs per group just from shovelling a load of dirt in. Fun for the whole family