My brother’s bachelor party gave me the opportunity to go para-sailing. I had thought of it as some kind of extreme sport. It is neither a sport, nor is it extreme. That said, if you ever get the chance, try it.
We floated 500 feet above the water on the end of 1,000 feet of cord. It was surprisingly quiet and peaceful. The view of the New London bay around was wonderful.
In keeping with my mission of a world in which each person has one, and only one, pair of shoes, I wore my stylish leathers up into the sky – oh, and I took my camera up too.
i’m glad someone else agrees with only owning one pair of shoes at a time. i’m currently on my third of pair of the exact same model of nike new balances, that i replace and wear out by wearing each and every day.
How do you land? I thought there was some sort of splash down, but apparently not if you’re wearing shoes and pants: do they real you in to the boat?
PS- what are Nike New Balances? Aren’t those two different companies?
PPS- I wear several pairs of shoes in one day, depepnding on the activity. Often, one of those shoes are a pair of Birk sandals, but I digress.
~bc, you land by them reeling in the parachute until you can just step onto the back of the boat – when you’re feet are down, they unhook you. It’s rediculously easy – you could do it asleep.
Edit out the top half of the photo and that will be your view half a minute or so into the rapture.
Height – my greatest fear – how brave you are Steve!
I too went parasailing a few years ago, at no cost thanks to my job at a PEI Visitor Information Centre, and had a whale of a time. The boat ride out to sea was great, the floating 1000 feet in the air part was the greatest, but the boat ride back to shore was a little less pleasant and resulted in me vomiting 12 times between a dock in Stanley Bridge and a driveway in Keppoch. I still, however, highly recommend the parasailing experience.