Fred's Tree Adventure

Today was a pretty amazing day for me. My goal for Tree Adventures was to finally get through one whole course. I have been there before but was always too scared of heights to complete anything – I had only really made it up one of the ladders and then had to get down again in the past.

This time though, I was determined to do better. I started on course 3, the one where they put that really weird bridge that has sort of zig zag blocks of wood that block your way. To get past those I was chanting “Zig!” for one side and “Zag!” for the others. There was also a section where a log was rocking backwards and forward – that was a bit hairy. But I made it through all those sections and thought everything would be OK until I came to the flying fox. It looked very long, very fast and very scary. I didn’t think I was going to do it but when other kids came past and gave me heaps of encouragement I decided to go for it.

What can I say about that first flying fox ride? When I jumped off I felt the ground disappear beneath my feet and with a loud whizzing sound I accelerated towards the finish. I couldn’t help but let out a “whoop!” because it felt so excellent… I mean the ride itself was excellent but the feeling of overcoming my fear was superb. I did four other courses after that and loved the flying fox on all of them. My favourite was course six. Mr H has put up a Poll to find out the all time favourite course – why not take part yourself.

By the way, hope you like the pic. That's me at the back right behind Yohan - those guys at Tree Adventures even managed to get me an invisible harness... how about that?