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The Guardian - Sean Steininger
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Friday 22 ]uly 2016 14.00 BST
1 I had been living on the Hawaiian island of Maui for about a year,
| working as a dive instructor, when friends from the mainland US came
| to visit last summer: Renee and her boyfriend Jason, Noah, Sarah and AJ,
| ail keen to have some adventures. We spent a week exploring another
| island, but there was a spot doser to home I wanted to show them - a
| serene 30-foot waterfall with a beautiful dive pool beneath it. l'd been
| once before and thought it would be a perfect place to spend the day
| 2 There was a walk of about two miles from the road upstream to the
| falls, along a path known as the Commando Hike. About halfway
| there, a light rain began. The area is notorious for flash floods during
| the rainy season and we'd been hearing warnings ail week, but the
i shower was so gentle I thought nothing of it; by the time we reached
| our destination it had already stopped. We had to wade up the stream
| to reach the swimming hole, in water that was no more than knee-deep.
| 3 On my last visit, Td jumped in from a ledge halfway up, to the side
i of the falling water. AJ was keen to try it and we stripped to our
| swimming shorts. Renee is a film-maker and Jason a photographer,
| and as AJ and I climbed the cliff face, Renee set up a drone with a
| caméra to shoot some video, while Jason took pictures from a beach| like area facing the waterfall. Noah and Sarah cooled off in the pool.
| 4 I climbed to the top of the waterfall and waded across to a rock in
| the middle, right near the edge. I was standing there, messing around
| while Jason took pictures, when I saw AJ on the ledge below, signalling
i that he was about to jump. I had no intention of leaping from where I
compRénension
I
eHPGRience: i ujrs suiGPT ougr a imgrpall
The Guardian - Sean Steininger
|
Friday 22 ]uly 2016 14.00 BST
1 I had been living on the Hawaiian island of Maui for about a year,
| working as a dive instructor, when friends from the mainland US came
| to visit last summer: Renee and her boyfriend Jason, Noah, Sarah and AJ,
| ail keen to have some adventures. We spent a week exploring another
| island, but there was a spot doser to home I wanted to show them - a
| serene 30-foot waterfall with a beautiful dive pool beneath it. l'd been
| once before and thought it would be a perfect place to spend the day
| 2 There was a walk of about two miles from the road upstream to the
| falls, along a path known as the Commando Hike. About halfway
| there, a light rain began. The area is notorious for flash floods during
| the rainy season and we'd been hearing warnings ail week, but the
i shower was so gentle I thought nothing of it; by the time we reached
| our destination it had already stopped. We had to wade up the stream
| to reach the swimming hole, in water that was no more than knee-deep.
| 3 On my last visit, Td jumped in from a ledge halfway up, to the side
i of the falling water. AJ was keen to try it and we stripped to our
| swimming shorts. Renee is a film-maker and Jason a photographer,
| and as AJ and I climbed the cliff face, Renee set up a drone with a
| caméra to shoot some video, while Jason took pictures from a beach| like area facing the waterfall. Noah and Sarah cooled off in the pool.
| 4 I climbed to the top of the waterfall and waded across to a rock in
| the middle, right near the edge. I was standing there, messing around
| while Jason took pictures, when I saw AJ on the ledge below, signalling
i that he was about to jump. I had no intention of leaping from where I