Australia fishing, bungy and great barrier reef

[Ktrout]

Spent the past two weeks in Cairns Australia for “work”. Glad I don’t consider snorkeling the great barrier reef, bungy jumping, going on duck boat trips through the rainforest and fishing, non-work related. I tried to get on a couple of offshore big game fishing trips, but the winds were 30-50 knots and the rain was constant the entire last week I was there, so I had go on river and estuary trips instead. Although the fishing was great, I did manage a couple of nice fish including the sought after barramundi (larger silver colored fish). The other pics are crab, eel, mangrove jack and bream, plus another fish I'm not sure of.


Kind of cool to see a nice size croc sitting on the bank fishing next to us. The weather was fairly sporadic with sunshine one minute, and downpours the next. I guess the locals don’t like the rain much because while they were hunkered down, I was catching fish.

The fishing was fun, but I had the most fun bungy jumping. Hard to find legal bungy jumping in the states so I was pleased to find one close to where I was staying. Will see if I can the video uploaded.

[url "http://youtu.be/w1miKLvHaWM"]http://youtu.be/w1miKLvHaWM[/url]
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[Kent]

Kory, looks like you had a great time on your "work" trip.
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[wiperhunter2]

Nice Kory, thanks for sharing your adventure with us. That was cool showing the bungy jumping from different angles. I would use a different word on the R & R board be here, I'll just say it took some guts to take that first step, it must have been a little easier after the first jump. Adventures like those you made in Aus are few and far between for most of us, enjoy them while you can. What a great job, where it get a chance to travel like that.
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[Ktrout]

Here are the results of my scientific investigations:

[font "Calibri"]I did a thorough investigation of gravity and discovered that what goes down, comes back up if you are attached to large rubber bands. I also discovered that people in general are terrified of heights. This results in about a 50% chance of people wussing out even when they take the time to travel and pay to go bungy jumping. My studies also revealed that there is still rain in the rainforests. It was not surprising that when the winds get to 50 knots and people are on a boat, they get sick (not me though due to scopolamine). Although I never got enough evidence to prove why the crocs are so mean, it may be very well be due to the fact that the bats in Australia are the size of cats. It is a proven fact that you still get service with no shirt and no shoes in Cairns and you actually blend in with the locals much better. I actually have something in common with some of the birds in Australia, we both like to get tipsy. The fruit in the area would fall of the trees and ferment and when the birds ate the fruit, they would get wasted. Surprisingly enough, the cars in Australia also can be used as boats. Lastly, I also proved that I can catch fish in Australia just as well as I can in the US. [/font]
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[N.E.T.O.]

Cool footage and what an adventure!

Years ago, in the early 90's, I was working at a place where we were (most of us) all younger, and did things like the corporate olympic games, summer swimming and volleyball parties and such. It was during this time when I met most of my water skiing and wakeboarding friends and we did that a lot over the next few years on the weekends with our families. Good times. Anyway, it was during this time when about a half a dozen of us decided to go bungee jumping at (at the time) a local bungee jumping place here in Salt Lake. We all committed well in advance, and we scheduled our day. Friday is casual day so we scheduled it on a Friday so we could be dressed in Levi's and such. I remember driving to work that day anticipating our lunch time bungee jumping adventure...and I can't remember who exactly put the Kai-bosh on the outing but it was one of our bosses, and it was advised that we don't even consider it on our OWN time either. Needless to say, we cancelled our outing and that was as close as I ever got to bungee jumping. To this day I'm still that we didn't do it.

As I watched the video of your jumps...I couldn't help thinking how bad that would hurt my BACK now!!!! Definitely a younger person sport!

By the way, Kent and I were happy to finally catch some fish on Saturday without you on the boat. []
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[TyeDyeTwins]

Cool report and even cooler fish! How much does bungee jumping cost anyway? Personally I wanna sky dive!

I noticed the nutcase helmet on ya when you jumped. For a few years I would wear their helmets and my twin would take pics of me out there while I was backcountry skiing.

They sent us 8 of them, and I have to say everyone I ever let wear them complained about how it hurt their head.

Still they have some cool designs. It was a shame that none of my twin's pics never made it past the negotiations phase when there were a few they wanted to use in promotional ads.
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[Ktrout]

Practically my entire family skydives, I've even jumped solo once. My grandparents jumped all the way until they were in their early 80s. I actually liked bungy jumping a little more, especially since I got to jump as many times as I wanted.

The cost of bungy jumping depends on what package you pick. I picked the most expensive one they had and it cost around 475 AUD (which would be around 430 USD). But I am sure that you could do a basic jump for around 150. However, I don't know of any/many places in the US that do bungy so it's probably a moot point.

That wasn't my helmet, the bungy placed wouldn't let me hold my gopro and made me wear their attachment. I wish I would have had a wrist attachment.
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