Getting High on the Gold Coast

By Andy Reid.

Since the dawn of time, man has always wanted to get high in one way or another. The Native Americans utilised peyote, indigenous South Americans were fans of ayahuasca, and opium and psilocybin were popular among many cultures. With today’s hard stance on drugs, modern day homo sapiens have embraced other, more legal ways of getting high. I’m talking about literally getting high… as in, far from terra firma. Gravity provides a strong challenge, one that we humans so willingly accepted.

Depending on your adrenalin levels, there are so many things to see and do on the Gold Coast, but we picked three high adrenalin thrill seeking adventures to make you feel like you can touch the sky, literally.

Gold Coast Sky Dive

Whoever thought jumping out of a plane was a normal and sane thing to do, was clearly an idiot… or were they a legend? Debatable as it is, millions of people around the world still decide to throw themselves out of a plane at 12000 ft to trust in a giant handkerchief with a few bits of string to guide them to safety. However the team at Gold Coast Sky Dive certainly have it all down pat. Taking off from 8.30am daily you can “fly like a bird without wings” and see the beautiful Gold Coast beaches from a whole new level.

A photo posted by Gold Coast Skydive (@goldcoastskydive) on Aug 26, 2013 at 3:04pm PDT