Fourteen Falls

The boys got bored so on Sunday they decided to go jump off fourteen falls and i went along (once again i found myself in a car full of boys, this seems to happen fairly often, generally, not just in kenya though that too)

So we rolled up at this place and had loads of money taken off us by some guy (he ran up after we'd moved his rope and driven through the enterance). It was pretty much the middle of nowhere. A load of kenyan guys came up and offered to take us over the top and show us where to jump for 3000 shillings (about 25 quid). The guys laughed at them and said nah lets go swim around at the bottom and see for ourselves. So they left me persuading the kenyans i didnt want to be taken over the top and went and swam about.

In the end we let them take us accross (after phil told them very firmly we were not paying that much). They took us to the other side, a random kenyan holding my hand most of the way, (it was pretty slippy and all over the place) to a nice big deep safe pool to jump first. By now my shorts were wet anyway and i looked down from the top and though hmm i actually qould quite like to jump off too.. in the end i jumped off a slightly lower one. (about 20ft/6metresish). I stood there looking at the water and thought hey i just got to do it! Threw myself of the rock, shut my eyes and screamed like a girl till i hit the water! Then i did it again without the eye shutting and screaming, it was pretty cool you had time to watch the water rushing up at you! The water was abosolutly disguisting though, don't even want to know what was in there! Still felt nice to be swimming in a river though =)


Then they went and jumped off the insane bit where there was like a 6ft diameter pool at the bottom you had to land in and all round that was like waist deep!! I was left in the middle of the river on a rock to take photos, only no one ever came back with the camera so i was stuck there till they sent a kenyan guy to take me back! Im glad i couldnt see how close i was to the edge on the way back! Joe and Adrian said they were more scared watching me being taken accross by like 5 kenyans than watching phil and nick jump off... One point the guy leading me fell and i was sure he was gunna take me down with him and we'd both be swept away! (The water was pretty strong) but it was fine and i survived to tell the tale! Got pretty sunburnt but hey it was well worth it! Your game now is to find where the top picture fits in the bottom picture (look top left hand) was pretty cool sitting there! And a nice view down the river and over AFRICA too.. hah