Plettenberg Bay
WC 2010 Skydive Plett Promo!
YOU kNO!w..?
HOW.. When you ask ANYONE...? "WHAT is that ONE THING you still wanna do?' ..the answer is inevitably the same.. "ONE DAY !.. I'm gonna SKYDIVE !"
Well.. Here's your Opportunity !
TAKE THE PLUNGE and race towards MOTHER EARTH at UNGODLY SPEEDS in excess of 200 k's an hour.
YOUR HOST (if you're lucky) 'TREVOR' - tandem master, PHOTOGRAPHER (see pic above), videographer, editor and famous BILLBOARD MODEL (see pic below).
SCARED ... ?
DON'T WORRY !
You'll be PERFECTLY SAFE !
Every Tandem Master has to have at least 1,000 jumps under their belts before you jump with them, and Trevor has over 4,000 !
HERE'S THE DEAL!
If you book yourself a spot at Starling Backpackers during World Cup 2010, you receive 100 Bucks off your Tandem skydive.
Hey ! HUNDRED BUCKS is a HUNDRED BUCKS !
A Tandem not good enough for you ? You'd rather do it solo ? Then give the podcast below a listen to find out what it takes..
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The Bag Lady
It is nice to see that a backpackers does more than just have a party every night. At Starling Backpackers, Vicky has started a community project, that aims to help underprivileged kids buy school uniforms.
They have a unique idea of using old plastic bags collected
from the streets, and re-using them to make cool bags, ideal for almost any casual purpose.
This not only gives back to the community, but also empowers them buy teaching skills and creating more jobs, that are desperately needed.
But this is not the only community project started at a backpackers. It is becoming more and more common to see backpackers getting into community work, like projects in Chintsa in the Eastern Cape and another very interesting backpackers project in Soweto.
Starling Backpackers Village
About 2 kilometres from the Robberg Peninsula in Plettenberg Bay, you'll find Starling Backpackers on a country smallholding just off the Plettenberg Bay Airport Road.
Starling is owned and run in part ownership by Matt and Vikki Rowe.
Matt and Vikki started the backpackers in 2005 from scratch, building it up out of recycled material during the day, whilst waitering at night in Plettenberg Bay's restaurants to earn money. Vikki runs a community project that knits beach bags, hammocks, pillows and shower curtains out of recycled plastic bags. This is soon to become a full fledged community project to support disadvantaged community members.
Their personaliies are well reflected in everything in the backpackers. The backpackers has a type of 'retro' country feel to it with words like bar, barn, saloon and homestead all coming together as one word, something like "barnstead" perhaps, with horses and dogs adding to the flavour of Starling Village.
The backpackers has a lively bar, complete with a dancing pole, pool table, fussball, lots of board games and table tennis. There are good mountainbiking trails in the Harkerville forest nearby, a beautiful hike around the Robberg Peninsula, good surfing, an airfield across the road for skydiving and many adventure activities and wild animal sanctuaries nearby.
