The Bloukrans Bridge is the largest single span concrete arch bridge in the world! It is also the highest road bridge in Africa and in the Southern Hemisphere...

...of course this could only lead adrenalin junkies to one thought - creating the highest commercially operated bungy jump in the world! With a free-fall of about 4 - 5 seconds, and a falling distance of about 160 - 180 metres - this gives you the ultimate opportunity to "Face your Fear"!

Yes it's scary or perhaps it's even stupid, but this morning found us waking up with only one thought: We want to do it!!!! This was something we had wanted to do since the beginning of this drive...so now the time was right, and we had much built-up anticipation!

We left Knysna at around 09:00 with nerves in Sarah's tummy, NOT mine! Ok, that's not true - I was slightly scared. It's amazing how nerves beforehand almost get the better of you as more than once we joked about just driving straight past!

Needless to say we made our way to the registration counter, signed our lives away and committed to the jump. Sarah marked Jumper # 11 ( J11) and myself J10. Much to Sarah's dismay as she had hoped to be brave and jump first!

In all honesty looking back, the hardest part of the whole exercise was the walk along the specially made catwalk under the bridge...Why do they always make them out of...MESH!

Meaning of course that your eyes are naturally drawn to the plunging gorge beneath. A question forms in our minds - "Why do we always put ourselves in these crazy, insane positions?"!

We now find ourselves at the jump site with no chance of a return to the comforts of solid ground - this being said, the staff and awesome sounds being played more than get you into the right frame of mind - the mind to JUMP, the mind to Face your Fears!

Ankles tied, a couple of hops to the edge of the platform, arms out and then 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 BUNGY - in that moment there is no more fear, you find your body just jumping on its own accord, and then the pure adrenalin rush of the 120km/h free fall - Freedom!

Over sooner than you would believe, you are hoisted back up after spending a few seconds hanging upside down, admiring the beauty of the gorge. Hand shakes and high 5's gave us the heady feeling of knowing that we had conquered the worlds highest bungy - Bloukrans!

"Fear is temporary, Regret is forever."