Day 8 – November 1 – Swakopmund

This morning I got to sleep in. By that I mean I got up at 7 am instead of being on the road by that time. I went for a little walk around Swakopmund and met up with most of my group at the hostel to sign our lives away to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
Skydiving was amazing! If it’s something that even remotely interests you, just do it, you will not regret it. It was a long day of sitting around and waiting though. It takes the plane about 15 minutes to get to the exit height and the plane can only take two jumpers and their tandem partners. We had a group of about 20 so it took most of the day to get through everyone. I was lucky and was only about the fourth pair to jump and they sent a van back to town with anyone who was done right after I landed so I had time to walk around Swakopmund. I went for lunch at the Strand restaurant on the waterfront and had an Americano – the first good coffee I’ve had since leaving home. I did some shopping, picked up some snacks and headed back to the hostel to enjoy a nap in my comfy bed and a hot shower without anyone waiting on me.