The Day We Flew

Ross and I try to make everyday an adventure and while staying at Ngaio Bay, it was not a difficult task. One afternoon we decided to walk up the hill and go to the ridgeline to see what we could see! Our first stop? The natural beehive in the camper on the side of their drive. We proceeded with caution and this is what we saw...

No joke. Those are the honeycombs. I don't think we spoke for 2 mintues because we couldn't believe what we were seeing. Well, that was enough to make for a good adventure...but there was more!

We watched the local sheep herders and their dogs round up the sheep and then headed up to the ridgeline. We found ourselves pushing against the wind just to get to the edge.

The view was incredible. Massive rolling hills that look like they were covered with a soft brown blanket. Without using words (because the wind was so loud), Ross and I discovered that the wind was holding us up when we were leaning. We started playing around with leaning as far as we could without falling.

Then we jumped in the air and found that we were being carried a bit...a.k.a. flying!!! Needless to say, when we weren't flying we were crying from laughing so hard. However, our tears were just being whipped away. We finally had to walk away from the ridge because the wind was starting to hurt our ears and from exhaustion. Who knew flying was so hard?