Mission Beach

Trip Start Nov 05, 2007
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Trip End Jun 01, 2008


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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Spent one night in Mission beach. Myself and Fox stayed the night in a place called the sanctuary, in the middle of the rainforest. It took us a gruelling 15 minute walk through the rainforest to get ot the place, up in the hills, totally isolated. We basically stayed in a big mosquito net high up in the rainforest, above the trees and foilage. Weird animal noises were to be heard all night. On a few occasions a giant gecko (lizard), stick insect or beetle would land on me. Had a savage dinner in the bar which hangs above the rainforest. Spent the day down at the beach. The water was warm, stayed in it for ages until a local woman came over and warned us that it was full of crocodiles, sharks and poisonous stingers. She also warned us about a weird aggressive bird in the area, bigger than an ostrich, and with a horn on it's head, only a few left in the world and they're all in queensland, she told us they like to attack. We went back to the sanctuary and stayed inside.
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The next day Padraig came to collect us in the car. He informed me that he booked a skydive for 1pm. I wasn't sure if he had booked something for me or not, since there was no reception in the rainforest but as soon as he told me it was booked i was gagging to jump out of the plane.

We hung around the flight centre for a good long while watching skydive dvds until the instructors came back from the previous dive. The long wait only made it worse. We got our instructions, did our bit for the cameras, got on the plane and got up to 14000ft...then the door was flung open. The noise was deafening, Padraig went out first, he was gone in the blink of an eye. I edged my way forward, you could see the curvature of the earth and a bit of black at the top where space began, we were well fucking high..there is nothing more frightening than having your legs dangle out over the edge a few seconds before the fall...then whhhooooosssshhh.....
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