Skydive Airlie Beach

At Shaun’s house in Caloundra we had seen the DVD of his daughter Jay doing a skydive in Airlie Beach. Since we had seen this film we were sure that we wanted to do the skydive in Airlie Beach. We arrived there Sunday evening and walked through town. We went to a travel agent in town and got the information that the weather on the next day should be beautiful. So the next morning we decided to do the skydive, phoned the company and booked. We drove there by ourselves and went to the wrong direction. So again we were running late for our flight;-)! We got a briefing and then we started flying: Dirk and his tandem partner, Silke and her tandem partner, the photographer and the pilot. We were flying for about half an hour before we reached 14.000 feet (that must be about 4,7 km). The view of the 74 Whitsunday Islands was stunning and we even spotted a whale from up there. Then Silke was jumping first, followed by Dirk and the photographer. We had 55 seconds of freefall – it was awesome (also for Silke who was doing her second tandem skydive)!