As a family of ten including a set of grandparents, a four and six year old and two older teenagers we were travelling on the beautiful road from Nelson to Punakaiki. We decided to pullover at the next place for lunch and that just happened to be the swing gorge. That lunch ended up being 3 hours long! And I think it was the best unplanned visit we did throughout our entire trip although my husband thinks the helicopter at mount cook just pipped it... but I had far more fun on the jet boat.

We did the swing bridge which was lovely and walked round the site and bumped into Mark aka the pirate. We did a good deal with him and he made this adventure epic. It was 40 minutes of screaming, laughing and adrenaline. Mark was very professional but also hilarious. Thank you so much for this experience Mark I don’t think any of us will forget you.

This was not on our itinerary because we didn’t know about it. I hope if anyone is travelling the same road as we did they get to stop and experience this thrill.

Thanks again Mark x