Grenada Canopy 2

01.7.31 3:25 pm Grenada Canopy 2


So ya kinda hold the wire with your other hand. Draping your hand over the top of it like you would hold on to the bar above your head in the subway.

Your hand is your brake. Slow ya down. Ya know. Just pull down, and it'll slow ya. Crazy. After watching the guide go ahead of us, I thought it was Real Crazy. Loony. Mental.

So I go first, right? I'm all locked and loaded and holding the thing with my one hand and holding the cable with my other hand and I'm off and zoomin' like mad. And hit the brakes. And slow down pretty nice. And glide right into Domingo's hands down on the other side.

So I'm unstrapped, then clipped to the wire fence on the platform and get to watch everyone else scream down the wire towards me.

I guess its kinda like that ride at the waterparks where you have the wire, and some sort of trapeze contraption that you hold on to and jump and scream down the wire, and at the last second it stops and you fall down into the pool below and its a gas gas gas cuz you're JJF (Jumpin' Jack Flash). Only difference here is, the thing isn't idiot proof. Its more like Idiot Eliminator, cuz if you don't brake you smash into a tree, and there is a guy there to catch ya if ya don't slow down, and I don't think it'd kill ya cuz it does taper off at the end, but ya could wreck yourself up a tad.

And no mom, we didn't wear helmets and in retrospect cuz I just thought of it, it might have been a good idea.


Was that the name of a movie with Whoopie Goldberg?

Anyway.

So it was pretty damn cool. Then when we've all arrived, he says, "Who wants to do Superman" and I am all about that, so he straps in first, and then he starts strapping me in front of him. But this time, the little pully thing is on my back. And then I'm told to hold onto the wire with my hands, and he grabs my legs and puts them around his waist. Then he says to let go of the wire, which of course you don't want to do because you can't see the wire, and can't touch the wire, and can't see if you're strapped in or not and so I let go and I'm hanging there, dangling like the proverbial thread with some crazy jungle guy (he wasn't so crazy, really, but a nice guy, Marcos) holding my legs. And he letts go. And I'm just screaming down this wire. And my arms are out in front of me like I'm flying. Superman. Describes it perfectly. Wild. Youcan't imagine just flying over the jungle at three hundred miles an hour. Bugs hitting you in the face.

And this guy is no slouch. Like, first time down the wire for me, I'm all about braking. Speed=danger=death=letsgoslow, right, but not this time, cuz guess who's at the helm. Tarzan. Lord of the Canopy tour, crazy man. And he knows how to stop. And he knows how to scare the shit outta ya, and he about did, and I loved it. So while I would started braking, oh, about two feet after we left the platform, he's Full On Speed, the Whole Way Down, and finally he lets go of my legs and flips me around and throws on the brakes.