Just like jumping out of a plane!

I have found a few minutes in a backpackers place in Cairns to check out the 100 goofy photos that were taken of me during my 14,000 FT SKYDIVE YESTERDAY! Can you believe I did it? I hardly can. It was a bit of a spur of the moment 'you only live once' decision to careen head first out of a plane flying above the clouds but, to be fair, extreme sports are a huge part of the life down here so I thought I would try my hand at them during my final weeks in the country.

24 hours after my first introductory scuba dive (more to come on this) Jennie and I strapped in for a different kind of diving. Despite my limited history in this area of extreme sporting and my huge dislike of roller coasters I found this whole experience to be quite surreal, it never really sunk in that it was actually happening and so I didn't get as scared or nervous, as I expected I would. I must say about 5 seconds into our 60 second free fall I got worried, but at that point there wasn't much to do about it but trust in Carl (my tandem dive master who has logged over 10,000 jumps) and enjoy the ride, and that is exactly what I did! After breaking through the clouds (and grabbing a quick taste) the views were amazing and the 4 minutes to the ground were quite breathtaking.

Now don't get yourselves in knot, through this experience I have learnt that I am not really one of those adrenaline junkies and this experience did not convert me. It was truly amazing and I'm so glad that I did it but I don't think that I will be itching to jump down from my Korean Air flight onto Canadian soil!