Maintain the Banana - An Adventure in Skydiving

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May 19th 2008
Since I was missing graduation, I decided that I needed to do something awesome. And that something awesome ended up being skydiving. Jess joined me and we did it in Grahamstown, so it was cool to fly over the city we’ve been living in for the past four months. Everyone’s been asking me if I jumped by myself - hell no. I was attached to someone that knew what they were doing haha. The onl ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Eastern Cape » Grahamstown

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more