Jono is the greatest!!!

YAY FOR SKYDIVING PHOTOS!!!! - Under construction :D

Jono was really nice and was able to scan my pics for me and has not only put them on a cd for me, but he has put them on the net in a secret folder for me so I can now put them on my blog!!!

Ok...so here starts my monster skydiving post once more... I had to get up at 5:45 so I had enough time to get to Steve's house by 6:30. From there, Steve, Lachie, Angela and I all pilled into the car and headed south. It wasn't very cold, but there was a light drizzle. As we headed further south west, the rain was heavier and my heart was racing as to whether we'd be able to jump today or if we'd have to wait hours for it to clear up.

Thankfully, aside from the clouds, the weather cleared right up as it was time for us to jump. I had some issues with not having an actual suit available (none big enough :( ) but I still got to jump so whose complaining.

The little plain took about 10-15 mins to climb up to 14 000 ft which gave us plenty of time to look out the window at the scenery, get nervous and wave at our camera men who on and off would sudden feel like taking video and photos. As I was the first in the plane I was also last out. While I was up there I didn't take much notice of the others jumping as I was just so caught up in everything (the video however captures it so fantastically though and watching it made my stomach churn more than the jump itself did).

Now some of you might be wondering how on earth i can be so calm when I jumped out of a plain, but let me put it this way. You are so high up that your perception of how quickly you are approaching the ground is pretty much useless. Even watching on the dvd where the camera man came in, you could only see how close the ground was when he was no more than 100ft above it. Secondly, after the staballiser parachute has been pulled all you can feel is this incredible wind rushing past you. It's incredible and if i didn't have clear glasses on, i wouldn't have been able to see anything at all. But you don't feel like you are falling...Just wind.

So once the main parachute is pulled, you just feel pressure from the harness and you feel like the wind suddenly slows down. Everything is quiet and calm and it's amazing. On a clearer day the scene would have been breathtaking. It as still pretty amazing though.

So as we kept descending we just did circles around the place until we saw that it was clear for us to land. All I had to do was lift my feet so we could slide in on our bums. My tandem partner detached from me and my camera man interviewed me.

Attached are some of the pics I liked most. You must note that the tandem instructors face didn't look as strange as it does in the pics...just that almighty wind pushed back some of that loose skin and made him look pretty darned funny.