went after the dubious pleasure of "Camel" in Plettenberg Game Reserve for Tranquility Lodge in Nature Valley, in order to recover from the efforts of the three-hour ride. It really was an oasis of tranquility, surrounded by a bustling beach life. The South Africans still enjoy the last hours of vacation before the seriousness of life for them to restart. Then it is suddenly quiet in the hot spots, where the South Africans enjoy their free days. After a very hearty breakfast, the journey was for us towards Tsitsikamma National Park and Paradise Beach as the next overnight stop. The ride of yesterday, however, still lies deep in the seat bones. In the Western hero, the eight hours galloping ride through the prairie, but then was subsequently relaxed to swing on a bar stool. However, this is accomplished, in my current personal experience of three hours leisurely routine for people to anatomically impossible. I do not know how many days of absence because of Old Shatterhand had seat problems. This fact is easy to beat us in the literature and films. In addition to these physical complaints, the shame of this miserable riding excursions weighed heavily on my ego of course. As the world's highest bungee jump with 216 meters came from the Bloukrans River Bridge in Tsitsikamma just right. I have never in my life a bungee jump completed. But here it all came together. Go to this magnificent scenery and the unique opportunity of 216 meters but then were too tempting. To clock it was 13:00 then over a bridge at a dizzy height to the platform at the center of the bridge. This alone is quite an experience. Now the tension rises and the cheeky, having earlier pulled even jokes that cling to the bridge. Manuela came by "flying fox" faster and more spectacular hanging in the middle of the bridge on the wire to the platform. The jumper can be identified by the marking on the back. On the back of the hand, the weight jump, the jumper number and the time of the jump are listed. I'm Springer Number 90 on that day. The weight is unfortunately more every day here in South Africa. I was the worst jumper in the group. Before the jump once the weight is checked against, because this is important for setting the jump rope. It is supposed to end if possible, before the floor. Then it goes to bail out. The feet are tied together and fastened the rope to his feet twice. I think that holds so? Because running with the feet tied together so no longer possible, it is supported by two assistants to bail out. Directly in front of me, it goes over 200 yards straight into the depths. Below is a small meandering river. And the body produces adrenaline to go. Not only Think! Low-side up, look ahead, pulse racing and the countdown is down from five. Then there is the free fall of over 200 meters in depth. An indescribable feeling to jump in the width and depth. This feeling can be described as not, they must themselves have experienced. Even Springer, who had previously completed bungee jumps were deeply impressed by this experience. I anyway. And that ego was stabilized. Best wishes to "Camel!" went after this deeply impressive experience it further into the Tsitsikamma in the wild, rocky coast. There, we were then also granted a group of dolphins jumping through the water to watch - what a day. Now we had to get a move but, for 150 kilometers were still ahead of us until the next B & B in Paradise Beach. On the trip we had to perform heavy rain and the windshield wipers in our small car had heavy work. At Paradise Beach, it was then dry and we were by the German immigrants from Saxony in the B & B welcomes tourists geheissen.Zwei couple from Germany were already there. "Why did you jump down there?" Was of course the question of the evening. "Because I felt like it," was the simple answer. The whole story with Camel remains between us and goes to no anything.
The pictures of the jump as evidence that there was not a dream, are the online album uploaded. On Montg it then goes on to Addo Elephant National Park, then we are back to "Big Game Hunting" and probably without internet. We are in a B & B, we have posted from Germany via Internent and no one here knows. We are very excited about what awaits us. See you later!
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