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  Catline Park, New Zealand
Saturday, March 8, 2008

I ve started the day with my Bungy Jump... I almost arrived late to the office but just on time. Then we went to the site by bus going through terrific gorges and valley always with the water charged with mineral and oxygen from glacier which gave to the water a blue almost turquoise.
The bungy site is a kind of cable car suspended between the 2 sides of a gorge at more than 134m. To go on the site you re using a small cable car (a real one this time) and when you arrive, there is window below your feet where you can see the high altitude. On the background, they put some kind of rock or strong music in order to give some courage to the Bunjy jumpers.
I was one of the last, so I ve seen a lot of jump before me which was a good way to destress...
But then they call your name first to install the system on your feet and then for the real jump.
Your waiting in a chair before the jump and you have a lot of time to think that you are the most stupid man on earth and then you have to stand up and to come near by the hole... you do only small steps as the system does not allow you to do more till the time where your thumb is above the hole.
Then you take a big breath, the more important thing: you don t think about what you re doing and then you jump shouting all you can during the fall
When you arrive near the ground: you really have the feeling that you will crash and you are not trustful anymore in your material but then a slow an powerful power slow you down till the time you re coming up again.
At this point you think you did the more difficult but here come the second fall: I knew it so I was less impressed but a lot of people think only about the first one and when the fall for the second time they are so surprised that here you hear the real shouting deep from the throat!!!
After that they bring you up again in the platform before to return to the ground with a huge smile on your face with a feeling of success to fight your fears...
In the afternoon I went to rent a car in order to go to visit the catlines park: I made one more time my way in the middle of the lake and the mountains in a scenery amazing.
I arrived at the sunset on a beach where I was totally alone in my car. I ve looked the sunset and I went to sleep in my car.

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