PhotoHuntIt’s time to jump back onboard with the weekly Photo Scavenger Hunt now my phone line is back up and running. This week’s theme is “Wild” and I’ve chosen a photo of me doing one of the ‘wildest’ things I’ve ever done … Tandem Parapenting in Nelson, New Zealand!
This was my initiation jump before jumping out of an aircraft, but things went a little ‘wrong’ on the day. We basically ran and jumped off the hillside and my stomach was ‘flip-flopping’ dreadfully, and I absolutely hated it, then the pilot spun us around in a 360deg circle, and we started just peacefully sailing and I enjoyed it again. We had a pretty rough landing by hitting an air pocket and plummeting fast the last few feet, then getting dragged backwards a bit by the wind … and the ground crew came over to us saying “that was a bit hairy, wasn’t it?” … “what was?” I asked innocently … “when the ‘chute collapsed” came the reply … my jaw hitting the ground was my own response! As it turns out that ‘flip-flopping’ was in fact us free-falling … needless to say, I hated the sensation, and to this date you will never ever get me to do that final airplane jump … never ever, nada, zip, no how! And I was the only one of our group that got to jump that day, as the operators decided it was too dangerous to do any more! At least I can say I’ve “been there, done that”, but definitely never ever again!
Feather Stitching 
This story reminds me a bit of something I’ve heard on tv once, when someone was asked if he would ever go parachuting, and he said ‘I see no reason to jump out of a fully functioning aeroplane’. I thought that was very wise. You keep your feet on the ground, please!
I’ve done a freefall parachute jump, but you’d never get me to bungee.
Braver than me. Not something I want to try – you wild thing!!
Wow! That must have been a wild ride and I’m with you… NEVER!
Mine is up too.
You’re very brave! I would never have the guts to do something like that!
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Ohmygoodness! You are brave and wild! Nice shot.
Mine is up too.
Cool picture! I’m not sure if I would dare that!
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Have a nice weekend,
Sonny
I will exercise for comments!!
I’ve done a tandem jump out of an airplane and it was an amazing experience! I didn’t enjoy free-fall though – however, once the canopy opened and we were drifting down it was amazing. So I can understand why you didn’t enjoy the “flip-flopping” sensation.
Have a good weekend!
Very nice picture!
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One thing i would probably not be able to do …too scared.
This is definitely WILD.
I’m a big scared-cat!
Mine’s up too 🙂
Wow that is wild and scary. Great choice for The Hunt though. 😉
That is wild… so fun. Pretty photo, too.