Bright and early the next morning Derick and I walked downtown to the bungy jump headquarters. I did was doing my jump on the Nevis Bungy... which is a 134 meter 8.5 second free fall... that is over 400 feet. They bussed us up to this canyon where the jump was located... I WAS FREAKING OUT!!!
Here is where the magic happens... they take you out to the platform in the middle of the canyon that you jump off of...
This is out on the platform looking down... Still freaking out!
In the chair getting the bungy strapped to my harness and legs... SUPER FREAKING OUT! I was really afraid that when it came down to it I wouldn't jump and just be a big pansy!
I told the dude... just tell me when I get to the edge of the ledge cause I don't want to look down... but he just kept saying... scoot forward... keep going... keep going... AND THEN I LOOKED... oh my gosh I almost died... getting all the way out on the ledge was the hardest part!
And then everyone counted down 3, 2, 1, JUMP and I just jumped... I didn't even have to think about it... jumping was the easiest part... but I really wanted to look epic doing it so I made sure I did it right...
With a super awesome swan dive!
And I just fell like that... parallel to the ground... almost the whole way down... felt like I was flying! I had so much fun while falling... except that I couldn't breathe!
It was a long way down!
After we got back from Bungy Jumping we met the Wentzels ate super delish burgers at Ferdburger... and drove to the "Gateway to the Fiordlands" Te Anau. We stayed at a cabin out of town called Glacial Rock. Our kitchen was stocked with fresh Milk from their dairy cow and eggs from their free range chickens! AMAZING! and the views!!! This is me on the back porch of our cabin!
Right out our back door...
After we settled into our cabin we explored the town a little bit... watched a film called "Ata Whenua: Shadow Land" at the tiny local movie theater: Fiordland Cinema. It was a gorgeous short film of Fiordlands World Heritage Wilderness that few get to see set to music. It was "filmed across extremes of season, climate & terrain" so we got a really good idea of what this amazing place was like all year around in places normally unreachable by humans! To see the trailer click here!
After the movie we went back to the cabin and cooked a delicious dinner of venison, lamb & beef local from the butcher in town, and fresh vegetables from the market! AMAZING!
3 comments:
What does it feel like when it pulls you back up? And how many times do they let you bounce?!?!
All I can think about is what a pansy I was not being able to jump off that tiny ledge at Fountain Springs.
You knock off socks.
at first I didn't even know I was going back up except for the fact that I saw the ground getting further away... it was so smooth, not jerky at all... and during the first bounce up you are supposed to reach up and pull a chord at your ankles that releases them from the bungy (cause the bungy is actually attached to your harness) so then the rest of the bounces I was sitting down in my harness right side up... it took maybe 1 minute for all the bounces to stop and then they brought me back up to the top slowly.
Its okay you can redeem yourself on our next adventure!
I imagined that it would be something like a fish getting de-boned in a cartoon. . . every bone in your body just getting yanked out. . . but smooth, this I never expected!!! Crazy! I guess if it hurt people probably wouldn't like doing it. . .
Alright, I am working towards redemption.
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