GO APE!

This Saturday some of the guys from work and I descended upon Go Ape based in the stunning Dalby Forest. We’d been looking forward to the high-wire forest adventure for a number of weeks and were so excited when we arrived – well, all except Tom who was SLIGHTLY hung over and feeling a little bit sorry for himself!
We were kitted out with harnesses, pulley and karabiners, and after a half hour training and safety session we were let loose to swing in the trees...

The giant obstacle courses in the trees use ladders, walkways, bridges and tunnels made of wood, rope and super-strong wire, and top it all off with the country’s best zip lines (including the longest at 426 metres – check it out on You Tube).

The zip wires were amazing – the further into the course you ventured, the higher and longer the zip lines became until you found yourself cruising over the tops of trees, spinning wildly at great speed!

As well as the zip lines my personal favourite was the Tarzan swing – attached to a rope you basically leap from the platform and swing across a wide opening, crash into a suspended cargo net where you have to clamber up to the platform and unhook yourself. When you’re so high up in the trees with people on the ground watching in awe and taking pictures of the crazies swinging through the air, it’s such an adrenaline rush!

My fear of heights never really surfaced throughout the session – I was so focussed on getting through the various obstacles and having such a laugh, the altitude element didn’t really factor into the equation at all!

After our Go Ape experience we dutifully removed the masses of wood chips we’d collected in our undergarments from our zip line crash landings, then had a relaxing picnic on a nearby field.

Altogether a fab day which we hope to repeat again very soon!

If you're interested, click here for more details about Go Ape!

You have to take a look at the video below of Jade's fab crash-landing!