ZIPLINE

So... Giancarlo got a Zipline for Christmas.  He waited and waited for our time in the jungle so we could put it up.  I am sorry I am just getting around to posting about it, because all of camp has been enjoying it for more than a month now.  Even putting it up was fun, hard work, but fun.  One end had to be over 20 feet off the ground and the other end at least 10ft off the ground.  Well, we didn't have a ladder that tall.  So, as you can see below, we used the ladder we did have, and then Eddie stood on Matteo's shoulders while Adan held the ladder.  The second pictures shows that it still wasn't high enough so Eddie had to shimmy up alone to loop the cable around the tree.  At the other end of the zipline it took a group of people to pull the cable tight.  But it wasn't tight enough.  In the end we had to pull it with the Landrover.  Nice driving, David!  The whole process involved a lot of giggling and a fair amount of bracing for disaster.   The final result can be seen in the smiles of our boys who by now have ridden it alone, together, backwards, forwards, at night, with balloon wings (my birthday) and with Coca Cola bottle jet packs. Bill has ridden it. I have ridden it.  Just about every single person in camp has ridden it, as well as almost every visitor.  It is wonderful fun for everyone.  Now we can't imagine camp without it.