Saturday, 5 March 2011

Wow!

Well first of all I survived the Bungy jump. Well actually my first comment should've been "wow -- what a rush!".

I wasn't as apprehensive as I thought pre-jump, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit nervous! Standing on the jump stop with nothing but fresh air between you and a river bed over 134m below you is quite mind blowing.

I was the second out of my group to jump (it's done on descending order of weight and I was in a group of skinnies). Once you have your leg harness on you kind of waddle to the jump 'ledge'. There is then a countdown and you jump (or not as one person in my group did -- they did in the end). I leapt of off with a bit of a swan dive, as advised, and I let out a fairly involuntary roar.

It was just immense. I've no idea of how much 'free fall' I had, bit it just seemed to go on and on. The only sound is the rush of the air as you fly/plunge through it. Then you jolt and then sort of bounce to a halt.

It then takes quite a bit of time to be winched back up to the jump station -- it's all very calm and peaceful swinging on a bungy cord above a river valley!

Total adrenaline overload.

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