Acapulco 5

Well, let's see. Today we slept late. We went to the beach. We drank piña coladas, we swam in the ocean, we drank more piña coladas ... Hmmm... sounds like yesterday ... (Something I haven't mentioned, is that we HAVE watched a match of Wimbledon each day. Today, we actually watched the end of a men's match, and then watched Sarena masacre her opponent. I think the other girl one one game. ) Then we went to the pool ... We came back to the room for a bit and relaxed and ate some guacamole and cream cheese sandwiches ... and then we rode with Martin and Mary into Acapulco. Now I probably haven't mentioned it, but the traffic here is horrible. It's a two lane road (and they are working on it so in places there is only one lane). It's probably 15 to 20 miles from here to the other end of Acapulco, but it took us about an hour and a half to get there. We went to watch the cliff divers (Clavadistas Profesionales de Acapulco). In my opinion they should be called Loco Loco.

They start by climbing down the cliff on one side, jumping into the water, swimming the channel and then, as show in our pictures above, the first 2 show them climbing the cliff (loco remember). Two single divers jump from the position of the lowest person in the last picture, then two doubles and a triple jump from the position of the the people closest to the top, then the last one jumps in from the top. They kill the lights for his jump. They have to time their jump so that the waves come in and give them sufficient water to actually survive the jump because when the wave goes out, the channel is extremely shallow. I found this video and although it takes a while to load (on my wireless anyway), it was worth it, I thought.