[VIDÉO ET PHOTOS] We tried the bunge jump on the background of fireworks and it was magical!

In Montreal, journalist Louis-Philippe Messier moves especially in the race, his office in his backpack, on the lookout for subjects and fascinating people. He speaks to everyone and is interested in all circles in this urban chronicle.

It is now possible to jump to the night elastic in the Old Port of Montreal during the tumult of the great pyrotechnic shows of the Round.

“Do you want to touch the water at the end of the fall?” Asks me the jump supervisor.

Of course, I answer yes to this little Plouf.

As long as to descend 67 meters in fall (almost) free, the equivalent of 21 floors, as well offer me a brief dip of the head in the St. Lawrence River.

In front of me, there is the illuminated city center, really magnificent.

On my right, on the other side of the Jacques-Cartier bridge, the fireworks bomb the sky with explosions of colors.

In the Old Port, to attend the big petrol, there is a crowd.

I find myself at the end of the Illuminated Crane of Montreal Bunegee.

After decades to serve as a pigeon incubator, the conveyor tower, revamped for its new vocation, has become an attraction.

Going down rue Saint-Laurent, it is impossible to miss this new sparkling night spot between the Center des Sciences and the Grand Quai.

For each person who jumps (for $ 200), there are dozens, sometimes even hundreds, curious people who look and who applaud. This is a new free show now typical of Old Montreal.

The one who asked me if I wanted to reach the water at the end of my jump is fixing my ankles at the elastic.

I have to think about the photo of Journal And jump when there are lights. Batter at the moment when I put the toes beyond the edge, there is a dead time. Misery! I have to wait a minute in this dizzying position before the explosions resume.

I drop my head first. I laugh.

It’s really very fun, the elastic jump, especially with the final hair bath. Plouf!

Until the Zodiac comes to pick me up on the basin, I realize that remaining suspended by the feet, the head down, is not part of my lifestyle.

Less afraid

It’s counter-intuitive, but it is much less proving to jump at night. We don’t really see the water and the floor at the bottom.

Even during the climbing of hundreds of steps to access the crane gateway, the vertigo effect is less poignant by night than by day.

“We now regularly reach 100 jumpers per day and we have just started offering night jumps,” says Samuel Cadotte, the owner.

“In addition to Friday and Saturday evenings, the elastic jump will always be offered during the evenings of fireworks around,” he adds.

As only four or five people have time to jump within half an hour of the fires, the places are limited.

It is extremely rare, of the elastic jump in an urban context. A fortiori of the bungee on the background of fireworks … it may be just in Montreal. Frankly, I found the magical experience.