I got the goggles!

Episod 4: The Ascension

I didn’t know if it was a good thing cause the way was still long and the probability was low. But I had solved part of the problem.

I ran back to the car, Audrey was waiting. We drove back to the trail.

Bad luck, the road was closed saying that the parking was full and we couldn’t pass. I didn’t care, we took the reverse way feeling like true rebels.

We parked the van and started trekking back in the park.

We walked the 1 mile on the road, got to the trail. Did the trail for the 2nd time — 2,5 miles up. As we were walking up we could recognize the same people we had crossed on our way down a few hours ago.

They should have thought “who can be stupid to do the same trail twice in a row?!” → me☺

You could feel it was the end of the day. The way up was hard and it took us another hour and a half to get back to the fall.

Episod 5: Find the GoPro

When we arrived at the pool, there were just a few people. I went down the surface of the water and let a couple jumped.

When I heard them screaming, it confirmed that the water hadn’t warmed up. But I couldn’t go backward. I took off my clothes and left my bag to Audrey. Now it was even cold outside, my body was shaking because of the efforts and the lack of food.

So I tried something. Since this guy was already in the water, I asked him if he could check for me. He was not really enthusiastic about the idea and politely answered “I think you should go first, check, and if you are too tired or freezing I will go after you”.

Ok Well, I guess I’ll have to do it by myself.

I put the goggles on and jumped in the water. Muscles were dynamited by the cold. I swam to the middle of the pool, where I assessed I had jump a few hours ago.

My first instinct was just to check if I could see it. I dove to check under the water, looking for my GoPro. Guess what?

There it was!

It was something like surnatural, I could clearly see it, just in front of me. It was laid on a rock, 3 meters down me, it seemed that someone put it here on purpose and it hadn’t moved it since.

I floated back and said :

“It’s here!, I can see it, i can see it !” I felt so happy, I didn’t even feel the cold, I found it!

I mean …I saw it…. now I had to dive and get it. I took a large breath and dove swimming down slowly to the GoPro and grabbed it

“I HAVE it! I found the GoPro!”

So you think that is the story of how I met the GoPro but it’s not over… “WHAT !”. Would you relax I’m getting to it!

So I grabbed the GoPro and as I was going to resurface…I saw something else 1 meter down, in the dark, behind a rock …

Guess what, it was …

an other GoPro!

I had pretty much no air, and I could resurface and dove again but I had so much energy and excitement that I went straightforward. I tried to swim deeper grab it once, but missed it, the second try was the good one!

The way up to the surface was tough but when I took my head out of the water I was so happy. I got my 2 arms out of the water, holding one GoPro in each hand, screaming victory!