If she can do it, we have to do it

While in Punta we also went to an area called Punta Ballena which is where Casa Pueblo is located. It is the big white house that goes down the side of a cliff to the ocean, it kinda looks like a lemon merang pie but it's absolutely beautiful. We didn't go in and visit, instead we swam out to see it from the ocean side. Let me explain.

Pati, my Aunt who is 57 years old, says to us, "Hey, I'll take you to some rocks we can jump off." Alright, we think, lets go! We drive out to the end of the point, the sunset was just starting, by the way it's 7:30 in the evening. Pati leads us down the cliff about 500 yards to the start of the rocks on the cliff, we look out and think, "Gee, it's beautiful here. A little cold and windy, but we're just wusses. It's beautiful up here." Then Good ol' aunt Pati takes off her glasses and shucks off her shoes and begins to walk to the boulder at the edge of the cliff. Blindly we follow her and some how end up in just our bathing suits too. I don't remember taking anything off, I think it was the wind. I climbing up the boulder and when I look up my Aunt was gone, Jay asks "where did your aunt go?" Well, let me tell you, she jumped, without even thinking about it, just jumped. We looked over the boulder and there she was, a small little person a great big ocean. Jay looked at me and said " I have to jump, if she did I have to do it" so after a few minutes of deep breathing he jumped. Now it was up to me.... so I looked down, which was a bad idea. All I could see was the water being swallow into a cave and then thrown out with great force and I thought that could be me! My Aunt and Jay kept saying "don't think about it, just jump!" so on three, with my eyes closed and one hand over my nose, I JUMPED!!! The jump was so high it took a few seconds to swim back up to the surfaces but I did it.

The water was perfect, the view breath taking! We swam a few 100 yards to some rocks. That where covered in muscles and algae so when the tied came up we let it push us on the rock. We got comfortable and took it all in, there's nothing more beautiful then watching the sunset from the middle of the ocean. It's moments like this one that makes a person feel so small and fragile.