Episode 5: Green Adrenalin

It hadn't been a good start to the day. The electric bikes that Zero Motorcycles had leant us to take all the way to Norway (episode 4) had been drenched by torrential north coast downpours and Bob and Chuck were busy taking them apart to try and dry the circuts out.

Bored of fooling around on our laptops and scruntaising budgets to see how much longer we could afford to keep this show on the road (great pun right?), Oscar and I decided to take a break and organise a bit of 'green adrenalin' for the four of us. Looking through a brochure of things to do in Byron Bay, we soon found something the four of us were dead keen on: hang-gliding.

Despite Oscar almost losing a testicle on landing, we ended up having an awesome time. One of my clearest memories is the sheer force with which the glider picked up off the runway when we went to take off. Instead of drifting out over the cliff, we went straight up like some sort of wind-powered rocket. We then proceeded to cut huge arcs around the Byron heads, about 400 feet over the foaming ocean. For the four of us, this really drove home how much energy is being harnessed by those wind-farms we'd been driving past all over the country.