IB and Kane
Debo and Glenn(and Debo kept her eyes open the whole way down)
The other day, we were thinking....hmmm, what shall we do today ? I know let's throw ourselves out of a plane 12,000 feet up in the sky.....cool. That was that decided then.
Yep, we did a 12,000 foot tandem skydive over Lake Taupo. What can we say.....apart from we wish we had the cash to do another....and another....and another. It's amazing. Debo even reckons it may have cured her fear of heights!!!
It took about 20 minutes (in a wee plane crammed full of skydivers and their passengers) to climb up to 12,000 feet, where a the door was slid open. You then had to dangle your feet over the edge and just as your thinking "this is bloody high", you're thrown out ........aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh is all we could manage in the first few seconds, before we realised we weren't gonna die (well not yet anyway - we were still pretty high up). We both had about 47 seconds of freefall, before the parachutes were opened (which almost cuts you in half) and we started to gently drift downwards. You can then start to appreciate the view.
Amazing, brilliant, excellent, fantastic (in fact all of them)
Cheers to Kane and Glenn, our jumpmasters; Joel and Eric the cameramen (yes we have a DVD and loads of photos) and to everyone else at Taupo Tandem Skydiving.
We will definitely be doing this again at some point in our lives.
1 comment:
Absolutely fantastic, both of you! Enjoying the posts but this one is the best yet. Really inspired by your travels and adventures especially the South American episodes. Mhairi and I are heading out to Australia next year for a couple of months travelling so I hope you've left that continent in a decent condition and not drunk them dry? Have fun and look forward to next post.
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