Number 26 — Bunjy Jump

Adrenaline pumping through your veins, cold sweat dripping from your body, mind frozen with pure biss, and then you're snapped back up away from the raging river before plunging downwards again. Bunjy Jumping is perhaps the most exciting thing you can do in carefully protected world. The closest to death you can be while remaining perfectly safe. I bunjeed 80 meters from the Mokai Bridge over the Rangitikei river located in Taihape, NZ one day in early spring. It was perhaps one of the magnificent things I had ever done. The pure rush is what it's all about. We got to Gravity Canyon around midday signed up for our bunjees (I went with a group of three) and got suited up for the occasion. Well, if you could call it suiting up. We we each got harness strapped around our ankles and were told to walk out to the center of the bridge for further instruction. Luck, me got to go first! I walked went seemed like an eternity over a grated bridge so you could see the pounding water beneath you. I then met up with my Bunjy Master who tied the secured the cord to my ankle straps, 'You're lucky this is a brand new cord we just made yesterday, you're the first jumper on it!' Yeah, lucky me. I stepped out on to the three foot long ledge that took me away from the bridge. The cord was so heavy I swore it was just going to pull me right off, but hey, I guess thats the point in the long run.

'Could you step out just a bit further?' My instructer coaxed me.

'Yeah, sure...' As I slowly inched forward.

'Oh just go out a bit more.'

Fuck.

Finally the fateful moment came I heard in the background 'Three...' Fuck. 'Two...' Fuck. 'One...' Fuck. Bunjy! FUCK! and I leaped off the edge.

Now once you're soaring through the air all the fear has completely left your body, nothing but pure bliss from this point on. Incredible experience, one that I would reccomend to anyone.

Accomplished: August 30, 2008