Saturday, October 3, 2009

XTREME

The word bungy, as used by A J Hackett, is said to be "Kiwi slang for an Elastic Strap".[4] Cloth-covered rubber cords with hooks on the ends have been available for decades under the generic name bungee cords.By 1982 they were jumping from mobile cranes and hot air balloons. Commercial bungee jumping began with the New Zealander, A J Hackett, who made his first jump from Auckland's Greenhithe Bridge in 1986.[8] During the following years Hackett performed a number of jumps from bridges and other structures (including the Eiffel Tower), building public interest in the sport, and opening the world's first permanent commercial bungee site; the Kawarau Bridge Bungy at Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand.[9] Hackett remains one of the largest commercial operators, with concerns in several countries.
(WIKIPEDIA.com)

So yeah, I was going to to skydive, but after discovering NZ was where bungy jumping originated I changed my mind. I cant really describe it.... but everyone reading this should do it.




We stayed at my flatmates house in queenstown.  It was my dream home, no joke.  It was isolated with lots of land, and space to the point where we laid out in our undies and no one saw.


If you can look close enough, you can see the small hut we jumped out of.


Pre-jump. I couldn't turn my head to look at the camera because my anxiety was skyrocketing... or something like that.

ahhh...

And we got free t-shirts.  :)

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