Skydiving

Camotes Island

I was watching a BBC special on Rio and paragliding in Pedra Bonita. It made me remember the first time I took that jump from the sky at 6000 feet.

We used a 4-seater Cessna plane. I was seated by the open wall where there used to be a door. As we climbed to higher altitude, the air turned cold. With anticipation, it felt colder. Having learned I’d be the first to jump, made me chill. I looked down at the drop zone, just a tiny line on the island, nothing like the airport runway that it was.