Paragliding

Last year Jackie got a tandem paragliding voucher for her birthday. We've tried to organise it a couple of times but the weather gods would normally intervene, but this all changed on Saturday.

Up above Wilderness is (apparently) one of the best paragliding sites in the world - 'Map of Africa' (so named because the inland view from the top, is of a piece of earth, bordered by a zigzagging river, that resembles a map of Africa). We arrived at about 13h00 and after a 'brief' briefing she was up, up and away.

Looked like a huge amount of fun to me and Jacks commented that she enjoyed it way more than she expected. I was very impressed with the instructors control. I'm not exaggerating when I say they came cruising back towards the launch zone, spun around and slowly descended back to the earth. He just said to Jacks 'Ok, you can put your feet down', and the ground was there.