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Skydiving Adventure in Cairns

The document describes the experience of skydiving from 10,000 feet for someone's 50th birthday in Cairns, Australia. It discusses the intense mixture of terror and anticipation felt while kneeling in the open aircraft door before jumping. During the freefall, sensations of wind roar, colorful clouds and a target ring are described. Upon opening the parachute, peace descends and the experience of floating in complete silence is relished, despite expectations of injury on landing. Intense pleasure and excitement are felt from relinquishing all control during the skydive.

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Skydiving Adventure in Cairns

The document describes the experience of skydiving from 10,000 feet for someone's 50th birthday in Cairns, Australia. It discusses the intense mixture of terror and anticipation felt while kneeling in the open aircraft door before jumping. During the freefall, sensations of wind roar, colorful clouds and a target ring are described. Upon opening the parachute, peace descends and the experience of floating in complete silence is relished, despite expectations of injury on landing. Intense pleasure and excitement are felt from relinquishing all control during the skydive.

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Kneeling in the open door of the aircraft, wind and engine roar drowning out all other sensations,

I can only tingle with a mixture of terror and anticipation. Below me, clouds swirl like disinfectant in water, and far down I glimpse a ring of prime colours which I take to be some kind of target. Viewed from ten thousand feet, a rainbow is a complete circle. Im determined to keep my eyes open. E ery second is to be relished. !"n the count of three, lean forward, dip your chin to your chest, and roll out, okay#$ %e rock forwards, then back. !"ne&$ 'orwards again, and my heart has somersaulted. (he instructors cheat, in case someone yells )no at the last second. *lummeting now at a hundred miles an hour, the noise of a thundering express train fills my head. +y mouth is parched, it is gaping open. (he cloud apour dissipates. I am bathed in sunlight. (he earth is hurtling upwards. -m I upside down# I can make out the peak of a mountain, directly beneath me& I pass through layers of red, orange, and iolet. I am falling through the rings of the rainbow. (his is the most powerful experience e er. I ha e relin.uished e ery estige of control. Inside, I am .ui ering with intense pleasure. - tap on my shoulder. %ay abo e, I make out three black dots tumbling towards me / my children& I must be crying, but I cant tell. - 0olt at my back, and I am floating in complete silence. *eace descends1 the wings of an angel are flapping abo e me. I am con inced I will break my legs when we land, but I dont care. 2pread3eagled on the grass, I scrutinise my childrens faces. (witching from adrenaline, we scream for 0oy from the bottom of our lungs. Each time I look up at the sky, I glow with the same excitement. I know how it feels to be up there, and nothing will e er be the same again. Skydiving over Cairns, Australia, for my 50th birthday.

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