Queenstown is where bungy jumping was conceived and founded. And it was something I felt I just had to do. On the morning of, it was freezing cold but I wasn't nervous as I'm an experienced skydiver you know. :-))Then when I was bound by the legs attached to a huge piece of elastic over a 43ft drop, I realised that a small physical difference to my skydive was going to make a massive pyschological difference to a bungee - no one was going to take me with them, I was going to have to jump off by my own steam!
It's unnatural to want to throw yourself off the top of a canyon and your brain is screaming that fact at you as you stand there on a tiny ledge. The longer you leave it I was told, the worse it gets. So on the first count of 3, I trusted that they had done their job properly and jumped.......
.......I screamed all the way down of course! When the boys in the boat came to 'rescue' me at the bottom, the first thing one of them said to me was "I like your boots!"And as I hung upside down like a large bat waiting to be pulled into the boat, all I could think of was that famous Wenglish phrase 'Nice boots those shoes'!
Pics link below as proof and yes, I do have a DVD of this moment too!
I just had to see the pic to believe it.....u are 1 brave bird....love ya xxxxx
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