Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooo! Guess what I did this weekend...BUNGEE JUMPED!!!! It was one of the most amazing things I have ever done! I went with 6 other people from the Alpine club at Massey to Gravity Canyon about 2 hours north of Palmerston. We started off with the Flying Fox which is like a very long zipline that speeds you into the canyon from about 100 meters up and you hit top speeds of 160 kilometers/hour! The cool part is that you're lying down in a harness so it feels like you're flying through the canyon. It wasn't quite the adrenaline rush I was looking for but it was very cool to do and a perfect set up for other activities...Originally I was going to do the bridge swing because I was afraid of re-injuring my neck that I broke a couple of years ago because it's quite a shock to your spinal cord. But then four people did the bungee and it looked too fun for me to pass up! I ran onto the bridge wearing just my clothes and they sat me down and strapped on the bungee ankle boots and the bungee cord and walked me out onto the platform that stuck off the bridge. The jump master told me to wave to the people on the bridge and then 1,2,3 jump! So I jumped off the bridge attached only by a giant rubber band on my feet. I don't remember much of the 80 meter fall except the most amazing feeling of adrenaline, terror, and excitement and then the bungee catching me and rebounding me back up. I bounced up and down for a while and then was lowered onto a small boat in the river where someone unhooked me and then got lifted back onto the bridge by a small chairlift. The experience was unreal and I still can't believe I convinced myself to do it! On the way back we stopped and took pictures of the countryside because it was so pretty but the best memory of the day had definitely been the bungee off the bridge! Now it's back to classes and routine during the week but I'm already planning my next big adventure because unfortunately this experience has turned me into quite the adrenaline junkie.
Gosh you broke your neck? Can't imagine how you did that :P.
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