A bit like white water rafting but not much. Until I was in Queenstown about three weeks ago I had never heard of white water sledging, or its other name hydrospeed. Yesterday I took the opertunity to have a go on the Kawarau River between Wanaka and Queenstown with Frogz. Suited up in a nice thick wet suit and wearing flippers you hold on to a sledge which goes under your upper body and then float down the river through the rapids.
I have now moved on to Franz Josef where I am going to be doing a guided glacier walk tomorrow. Despite being only a short distance from Mt Cook, again it has taken me a couple of days to get here due to the mountains being in the way for a direct route.