The Skytower - Auckland by onewing

The Skytower - Auckland

Our next port of call in New Zealand was to Auckland and, of course, we had to visit the famous landmark the Skytower.

If you look closely at the bottom two photos in this collage you can see two rather brave souls (or foolhardy, not sure which) doing the skyjump from the tower.
I so wanted to do that dive off the tower a few weeks ago!! Ran out of time - great collage
February 17th, 2016  
Great collage of our Sky Tower on a clear day we can see the tower from our farm.. We are about 1 hour from the CBD
February 17th, 2016  
Great collage
February 17th, 2016  
O.M.G....how brave are they!...not for this little black duck...(cold shudders)...great photos...really like the first one where you see it in perspective... :o)
February 17th, 2016  
Jumping from there looks terrifying to me. Great collage Babs
February 17th, 2016  
Great collage and photos
February 17th, 2016  
What a beautiful collage of the tower it would make a lovely picture post card, went of the Skyjump.co.nz web site to see what the Sky jump would be like, you drop 192m in 10 seconds travel at 75km per hour and its only $75 a go, what a fantastic experience I would love it yet another tick off the bucket list before I pop my clogs:)
February 17th, 2016  
Great Collage, very brave jumpers too !
February 17th, 2016  
Very impressive tower, nice to include the figures to give an idea of the size :)
February 17th, 2016  
They must be crazy!! Great collage Babs.
February 17th, 2016  
Lee
And to think they pay to do that!
February 17th, 2016  
Great collage Babs. The view from the tower is fabulous isn't it.
February 17th, 2016  
Wonderful collage and a beautiful tower.
February 17th, 2016  
Great collage
February 17th, 2016  
Great collage. I love the POV you have on the first shot. As for the skydivers - rather them than me. Be the view from the top in something to see.
February 17th, 2016  
Great shots, povs
February 17th, 2016  
Good collage Babs. When we were there a girl fainted on the way down . She was just hanging there at the half way point right in front of us. They lowered her to the bottom and she came round!
February 17th, 2016  
I think it would be quite a thrill but I'm not sure that I would be able to just jump off a building. I did jump out of a plane a couple of times but I am just not sure about the thought of being attached to a rubber band (albeit a very strong one!)
February 17th, 2016  
fantastic architectural photo's
February 17th, 2016  
Great collage, Babs. Your turn next! ;)
February 17th, 2016  
Great collage of this building, nice POV and details.
February 17th, 2016  
Lovely collage, mad to even jump off a chair let alone that tower.
February 17th, 2016  
I'd like to see the top left shot as a stand alone - scary too!
February 17th, 2016  
Wonderful shots.
February 17th, 2016  
Bad enough going up there without jumping off!
February 17th, 2016  
Great collage and cool captures.
February 17th, 2016  
@debilz Wow, you are braver than I am Debbie.
February 17th, 2016  
@julzmaioro I should have waved to you Julia.
February 17th, 2016  
@maree_sanderson Rather them than me too.
February 17th, 2016  
@thistle When you are up at the top looking down, it is such a long way too.
February 17th, 2016  
Lovely collage, did you get to the top of it?
February 17th, 2016  
Wow, I would love to do that! Lovely collage.
February 17th, 2016  
What an amazing building. So well captured.
February 18th, 2016  
WOW...great pov's!! Holy smokes....some people are just "wired" differently to even consider doing something like this! Yikes!
February 18th, 2016  
I like the difference in segments we are getting to see from your collage.
February 18th, 2016  
Even that glass-floored lift is scary without risking life and limb out there. They're nuts IMHO. Love this collage Babs.
February 18th, 2016  
Great shot, they must be crazy jumping off....
February 18th, 2016  
@pcoulson Thanks Peter. You must be mad. I was more than happy to just come down in the lift.
February 18th, 2016  
@chimfa Oh God, how scary. I wonder if she got her money back ha ha.
February 18th, 2016  
@365projectorgsebgritt Not on your life Sebastian.
February 18th, 2016  
Neat images - not for me! Let's say it's too expensive!
February 18th, 2016  
Omg, like little spiders.
February 18th, 2016  
Super collage, but I wonder about the people of NZ. Is there something lacking in their life?
February 18th, 2016  
When I visited NZ a few years ago I was travelling with a girl who was in the UK army. If there was something to jump off she did it! It was like being with Superwoman! Lol! I of course did nit jump off anything - I just took the photos! I stood below her at the Sky Tower and took a video of her jump recording the scream all the way down! Yes she was mad! Lol! Wonderful collage - it brought back some fab memories of a great holiday! Fav!
February 19th, 2016  
@dide Not for me either. I like the too expensive theory, that works for me :)
February 19th, 2016  
@pusspup Noisy spiders by the sound of some of them.
February 19th, 2016  
@princessm You could be right.
February 19th, 2016  
@pamknowler I'm with you Pam why jump of a building when you can use a perfectly serviceable lift. I did stand on the glass floor though. That was my limit. I can identify with your friend. David was in the RAF and RAAF and we knew quite a few Army people on various stations. Far madder than the Air Force people.
February 19th, 2016  
@onewing ha ha, screaming?
February 20th, 2016  
February 20th, 2016  
The white water rafting I would love but this....oh no thank you!
I wonder about the very first bungee jumper, I can imagine his friends "Go on mate, you'll be fine, just jump!"
February 20th, 2016  
@bluefirebucket ha ha. I guess the first bungee jumper is now the person who started off 6 ft and ended up 3 ft 6 in once he ran out of sky.
February 20th, 2016  
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