Well I got to tell you the most amazing day of my life. It started out with Maryanne and I going for a tour through the sugar mill inTully. We missed the tour as it had already started so, the next best thing to do was take a drive down to Mission Beach about 20 k away. It's a lovely spot as you can see on the photos. There were skydivers landing on the beach. It was fantastic to watch them coming in to land. I got to talk with a few of them that just had made the jump and all of them where just so hyped up with the adrenalin rush from the dive. Some how I finished up back in the skydive office. There was another group getting ready to take the bus to the airport and I started talking to this rather pretty girl from Byron Bay who was running the office. She had jumped a few times herself and was telling me it was no big deal as the professional divers will walk you through it. She said there was one space available in this next jump, and with her nice blue eyes looking at me, and that smile I could not say no. She bought the forms over for me to fill in and I was shaking so bad that Maryanne had to fill them in for me. It was a rush job as they where all waiting for me. The bus to the airport was wild, with the hyped up music and every one was" high fiveing" each other saying, hey man we can do this. I needed a beer real bad as I was still shaking. The plane was ready to go when we arrived at the airport. We climbed to 14 thousand feet which is the highest jump zone in Australia. The view from that high was fantastic and you could see the great barrier reef with its small dotted islands and the air as clean as can be. I couldn't help thinking what a beautiful day to die.
The door rolled up and the cool air rushed in. Every one started sliding to the door. My dive partner hooked up to me was telling me to lean back and arch my hips forward, It's not a good feeling to watch someone jump out of a plane! It just doesn't seem right. I was the last one to go and words can't describe the sensation.We dropped 4 thousand feet, face first in one minute. I was yelling most of that time like frrrrrrrrrrk. The best feeling was when the parachute opened but, at the same time it almost knocks the breath out of you, as you slow down that fast. You go from 10 thousand feet down to the landing spot on the beach in about 6 minutes. The dive master had me pulling on the control ropes going right then left. We came in so fast I thought I would break a leg for sure. My feet where sticking out in front of me and were skimming across the beach at break neck speed, then he said put your feet down and we landed on our feet! Wow, what a rush! Two hours later I was still on an adrenalin rush. It was all filmed and put onto a CD. I had to take a sleeping pill last night as I was still wound up at bed time.
This was a day I will always remember!!
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