| Mark's Mess!!! |
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| Hi everyone! My name is Mark and I am an attached 34 year old living at Battery Hill in Sunny Caloundra Queensland. Caloundra is located about an hour's drive to the North of the city of Brisbane. It is a hard lifestyle being a Skydiving Professional and enjoying the beach and the surrounds....! I work full time Skydiving at 6, 12 and 14,000 feet above Caloundra and land on the local beaches - no grass stains lol! I love to keep active and am the sort of person who likes to try anything once to judge it for myself. I try to keep fit and prefer to be out and about doing something than being a couch potato. :) I still like to relax at times though so it is not all go 100% of the time! If you would like to chat or get to know me I have ICQ at 24356942 or click the email link next to the photo above. I am also into a lot of different sports and seeking an activity partner so if interested please feel free to contact me also. |
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| SKYDIVING for me is a main interest although I have no problem at all with almost any sport like volleyball , indoor cricket , squash , tennis, Cable Skiing and so on. As far as Skydiving I first jumped out of the "so-called" perfectly good aeroplane on Jan 10th 1993 and I now instruct new jumpers as an AFF instructor, do Video and Stills and take people for their first jump in the role of a Tandem Master. I currently have around 3,650 jumps. There is NO SUCH THING as a "Perfectly Good Aeroplane!!!!" The reason I say this is because I also have a Private Pilot's licence (got that before the sky diving!) and KNOW the TRUTH!! Other hobbies are many and varied , such as FISHING , CABLE SKIING , going to the MOVIES , CAMPING and staying in with a good video. |
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| I have a sister Carolyn who is two years older than me and lives nearby. She is married with a daughter Shea. We get along well which is strange looking at most brother and sister relationships around me at the moment!! She is the brains of the family and I am supposed to be the strength or braun (is that how you spell it?!?!?) but I do not know about THAT!! Oh , by the way we all lived most of our lives in ONE place called Dingley or later Dingley Village which is close to Moorabbin Airport where I learned to fly later on. We are talking about a place South East of the city of Melbourne for those who may not know! I stayed in the one house for about 25 years and soon realised why moving is not so much fun once you take the "change of scenery" part out of the equation!! My parents live down the coast in a really nice place called Lake Cathie which is just to the South of Port Macquirie NSW and have been there ever since moving from Dingley in Victoria...... |
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| (Pic Above)-Our Jump Plane , the LET 410. (Pic left) - "Sometimes you are the frog , and sometimes you are the bird." Kinda goes with one of my favourite lines , which is "Such is life." -Ned Kelly. |
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| (LEFT) - Landing on the beach after a Tandem Video jump. (RIGHT) -Shortly after exiting the plane on a friend's 500th jump. |
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| Big Pic Above - My Girlfriend on her first tandem skydive Small pic above left - Self on a "Work" AFF jump Small Pic above Right - Side on Pic of Self and Girlfriend's first Tandem Skydive. |
| ABOVE - Pilot Lisa Strathern and Self a week after she saved my sorry ass!!!! -Yeah it is why they call me "Dangles!!" |
| ABOVE - One of my favourite quotes and pics in this lifetime!!!!! |