Kayaking and Skydiving (not at the same time!)

We started our day nice and early (no change there then) and met Nell our Kayaking guide and then the 2 other people who where kayaking too - Rhi and Stuart (nice couple from the UK, travelling round the world while waiting for their working visa's for Oz). Rhi hadn't kayaked before and was a wee bit nervous. We where in tantam canoes, which was great as I am not totally confident on the water meant that I could sit in the front and just concentrate on paddling and poor Stella had to stear (with her feet) and also paddle.
In the bay was nice and easy to begin with, calm water. Once everyone was ok, we went further out onto Lake Taupo. The Lake is huge and here is an amazing fact - The lake is the same size as Singapore !!!
As we made our way out more onto the lake, it was a wee bit windy and was certainly creating some waves. Was cool and good fun as the kayak was being lifted at the front, then smacking down onto the water in the troth of the wave. Only had one hariy moment when a wave hit us size on, that is the easiest way to capsize and we don't want that now !!! Also sometimes we had to deal with wakes from boats zooming past us.
The reason we did the kayaking trip was to see some Maori cavings on the face of a cliff, was really impressive. But found out that the carvings are only 30 years olds, still impressive as completely done by hand over 4 summers.
Once back on dry land (thank you). Stella and Rhia got chatting and realised that they both wanted to do a Sky Dive. Was a totally perfect day to do it too, clear blue skies. So from them deciding to do that, within the hour Rhia was falling out of a plane at 12,000 feet and Stella was falling from 15,000 feet. I am really proud of Stella, but someone had to be on the ground to take photos !!!!