Skydive at Lake Taupo

On Wednesday afternoon I finally managed to jump out of a plane. I was booked for Tuesday morning but it was windy. After waiting hopefully for over two hours the decision was taken to abandon the attempt. I tried again Wednesday morning but it was too cloudy so we went off on a trip down the lake. The first take off for that day was not until about five in the afternoon and I was on it.

Here I am all kitted up and watching the safety video.

This is a view from the plane window as we are climbing to 15000ft.

Here we are sitting in the doorway of the plane waiting to jump - look how high we are.

We are now in free fall ..

... getting lower

Now the parachute has opened at about 5000ft, that was 10000ft in about a minute

Coming in to land, you can see the crew getting ready to help.

It was a fantastic experience, I am really glad I did it.