7th weekend

The weather forecast for the weekend was bad; it should rain the next days. In fact of that I looked for another activity then hiking and came across to Bungee Jumping. I heard during the week that it will be a special offer for locals this weekend and so I ask how local you have to be to get the discount (amazingly 50%). The answer was longer then three months, I’ll stay here for three and a half - perfect! I got a confirmation from the school and went to the agency to book for Saturday afternoon. Victor wanted to come with me just as a spectator, but for this you have to pay 50 bucks, which was too much for him.
After dinner we met us in town to go out and during the night, he changed his mind and he will come with me on Saturday.
So, we met us on the next day at twelve in town and he booked his jump. Unfortunately, my group was booked out and he could only book for the group after me. The bus took forty minutes from Queenstown to the Bungy location, called Nevis. Dam is that huge! I put my jacket off, the harness on and had to check my weight again (Oh, I put weight on in NZ!). They started with the heaviest ones and I had to wait, even thought I was heavier than usual. With the second last group I got out to the platform, waited and could see how the others jumped. After a while I got some ankle scuffs and few minutes later I took seat on “the special chair”. They connect the elastic rope to the harness and explained me, how I could release my feet after the jump, to make the coming up more comfortable.

With little steps, (my feet were connected together) I walked to the edge, a quick look down, an “are you ready?” and then 3-2-1-JUMP!

Whooo-hoo!
The first seconds were amazing! I just realised that I’d really jumped and I was still falling – over eight seconds! First rebounce, second rebounce, released my feet by pulling on a red wire and enjoyed sitting fifty meters above the Kawarau River. With a second rope they pulled me up, back to the platform while I could recover from the jump (and adrenalin).