Parasailing

We recently visited the Bahamas. It was nice. Warm. Lots of sun. I was actually horribly sun burnt and I'm still itchy from it. (Pro-tip: Wear lots sunscreen if you are down there) Anyway, one of the excursions on our cruise was Parasailing. I had never been Parasailing and I kind of always wanted to do it, and Randy had done it before so he was on board.

When our ship stopped at Coco Cay we met up with the men running the Parasail. The were nice, but they didn't talk much. They started suiting up the first people as soon as the boat was moving. We had already filled out our waiver, but we were given little to no instruction, but how hard could it be, right? We were going to sail in the air at about four hundred feet being dragged by a boat. No problem, right?

The boat was moving and we went up two by two. The first couple sat on the head of the boat with the wind blowing into the parachute behind them. They had on life vests (for flotation if they fell into the sea) and harnesses attached to a bar. The boat sped up and they slowly lifted from the boat. It looked like fun.


Randy and I finally went after three other people went up and down safely. It was moving very quickly despite the lack of information being given to us. We were attached to the bar and before I knew it, the wind was lifting us off the boat and into the air. It was an interesting feeling dangling in the air that high and being able to see the reefs and clear blue water below.

The entire flight lasted about 5 minutes. It was a little boring at times, because you are literally just hanging there. I wanted to cut us loose and float off, but that probably would have been a bad idea.

We made a video. It was an excursion during our trip on the Royal Caribbean cruise and I highly recommend it for anyone, the lack of instruction isn't that big of a deal. Really it's just up and down, you stand when you land, don't try to do any flips or tricks while you are up there, and enjoy the ride.