Jump!

I'd like to interrupt these travel reflections with something that gives me endless glee:

Kevin jumping into bodies of water.

Behold!

Semuc Champey.  This rope swing subsequently broke. (In all fairness, it had lived a good & long life.)

A bit blurry, but A for effort!

That crabber found the gringoes to be awfully amusing.  These are from San Marcos, Atitlan.

Switching gears to north-eastern Vietnam, near the Chinese border.

That German Shepherd found the event to be terribly unexpected & exciting.

Back to the Western Hemisphere, from the Kuna Yala, off the coast of Panama approaching Columbia.

Moving south to just outside of Tena, Ecuador, & into the Amazon.

 Unfortunately the shot is dark, but Kevin is standing about 30 feet up on a rain-slicked, mossy, stone ledge. Swifts circled overhead as light drifted down through the ferns.

 And... he made it.

 Like a maniac, he followed the foot-holds of some local Galapagos teens to find another jump, this time in Las Grietas on Santa Cruz island in the Galapagos.

 Gringooooo!

Lived to tell the tale.

I think the enthusiasm sells it.

Lake Crescent, Washington June 2009