SAFA Skysailor Magazine

8 SKY SAILOR November | December 2021 by Tony Sandeberg Ragged, once below sea, pre-historic cliffs of weathered, crumbling rocks, bordered by the edges of the Indian Ocean’s turquoise waters alongside pristine beaches for 100s of kilometres. These remote, harsh and desolate sea cliffs are the longest in the world. Threatening, intimidating, wild, yet unusually and stunningly beautiful. That’s where we had headed to paraglide. In November 2020, Erik the Viking rounded up 10 eager, talented, somewhat crazy, adventurous paraglider pilots to experience the Nullarbor Cliffs. Erik, having ventured on previous expeditions, made all preparations and encouraged our troop with stories of a unique adventure, and flying sites very few have ever flown. The coastline of the Great Australian Bight is characterised by cliff faces 60 to 100 metres high, ideal for paragliding. Increasing numbers of southern right whales migrate to the region from their summer feeding grounds in the Antarctic. The whales come especially to the head of the Bight to calve and breed, and do not feed until they return to Antarctica. Bitten by the Bight