Three men, 3100 miles and 17 days to cycle them

In September 2012 three men from squadron based in Culdrose, Cornwall plan to take on the massive challenge of cycling from San Diego to New York. Wayne Davey, Justin Morgan and Damian Barnes are going to be taking on the 3100 mile cycle across the United States over just 17 days. Morgan described the moment […]

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Skydiving in Abel Tasman

In the town of Motueka there happens to be an airfield. One of the options at the airfield is to take a flight in a stunt plane in which you actually get the chance to take over the controls for a brief period. A friend took this option and I was told it was a […]

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Sandboarding in New Zealand

Sandboarding on New Zealand’s North Island The principle was you grab your swimsuit, grab a body board and catch the boat over to the sand dunes. Once there you all trudge up the sand dune (which believe me was hard work on a hot summers day). Then you grab the edges of your body board, […]

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Swimming with Dolphins

Going swimming with dolphins is one of those things which you commonly find on people’s bucket list which is why I felt so privileged to have the opportunity to swim with a pod of wild ones! This was one of the activities which was offered to us whilst on our Flying Kiwi tour of New […]

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River Surfing in Queenstown

River Surfing was one of the activities that kind of popped up and surprised me. It was only by a recommendation that we ended up doing this and I am really glad that we did because it was one of my best experiences in New Zealand. I was a bit tentative about taking part in […]

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Paragliding in Queenstown

When I was in Queenstown (the adventure capital of the world) I decided to split my available time between going river surfing and tandem paragliding. This post will hopefully give you an idea what the experience of paragliding was like.  We were quite fortunate on the day as the weather was really quite pleasant, it […]

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Sea Kayaking in Abel Tasman

Abel Tasman National Park was by far my favourite place in New Zealand. It has so much to offer, I only had two nights here but this was one of the places I would have happily stayed for two weeks. New Zealand is a country which is full of amazing landscapes around almost every corner, […]

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