crap, i realize it's been a while between blog posts...my bad homies. the last couple of weeks have been craycray, i had a paper due every week for a while, then presentations and tests and more presentations and then end of semester shenanigans...yeah. anyways, I MADE IT THROUGH THE SEMESTER CHEEE!!! last friday we finally got around to hiking castle hill, which was pretty rough but had some sick sunsets. then saturday we went to maggie again with jade, hiked over to radical bay and set up camp there. cruised on the rocks, jumped off some, swam around, and got stung by a million tiny stingers. didnt hurt too much, but got crazy itchy in a couple days. then we struggled thru the last week of class (didn't really struggle, more like partied...i won't put details here cuz this is a family program, but if you really wanna know skype me) and made it to this past weekend!! friday night was oktoberfest at uni club, then saturday we drove up to jourama falls, about an hour or so north of JCU. it was super sick up there, there was a bunch of pools and waterfalls with these massive rocks you could jump off. we hiked to the bottom of the pools, then left our bags in the shade and climbed up to the bottom of the top waterfall, thanks to some slightly sketch rock climbing and jade's tarzan/wildman-ness. the top pool had a jump about 15 feet or so, we cruised there for a bit. jade thought he could outswim me, so i had to SMOKE HIM and shut him up...altho he got pretty close. too bad he doesn't know how to swim in a straight line. anyways, we got down to the second pool, which had a jump about the same height, but slightly more sketch, since you had to clear two ledges, which stuck out about 6 feet from the top ledge. jade was the only one ballsy enough to charge the top one. i rushed the second ledge with glenn, and the girls climbed down to the bottom one. the last pool and jump was RIDICULOUS. easily the highest jump, i'd say it was a good 20 feet, maybe more. def at least 5 feet higher than waimea rock, if that gives any reference point. and on top of that, there was ANOTHER ledge sticking out halfway down, prolly stuck out at least 6 feet from edge of the top "ledge" which was really only wide enough to stand on. pretty precarious. it took me about 5 mins to finally nut up and shut up and just jump...everyone else climbed down around the ledge. except jade who climbed higher, and then jumped over the slab. frickin wild man. anyways, when we finally all got down to the bottom, we had some lunch, attempted some gainers off a lower rock ledge, and failed miserably. apparently when i have time to think about flips, i cant do it, but if i'm bodyboarding and see a ramp i'll hit backflips no probs. go figure. anyways thats prolly enough writing, i'll leave you guys with a sampo of some of the gopro pics i took. most have choke waterspots, so i won't put them all up here. check fb if you wanna check um all out, but they're honestly kinda crappy. i might motivate myself to edit the footage we got...if i do i'll post that here too. kden, unco out. shoots!
bottom waterfall. yes, we jumped off of that. and no, its not as short as it looks. blame the fisheye
sketch rockclimbing zones
waterfall zones!! almost as good as getting shacked
mini waterfalls zones
selfies for days
about to take the plunge...compare the size of the ppls to the size of the waterfall.
sunset from top of castle hill
glenn and his headband, so adorbs
sick little nug
sick little rock zones. we were attempting gainers off the bottom left rock...didnt work too well.
