We stop to get a drink and some adults come over to us. When we say that we’re looking for a big waterfall nearby they point us in the direction of a small path disappearing off to the right. A few kilometres further on we find a muddy track and can begin to make out the increasingly deafening noise of falling water, until we eventually arrive in front of the most stunning scenery we’ve yet encountered. A magnificent thirty metre waterfall is crashing down through a natural amphitheatre formed by the dense vegetation and big black rocks. Alexis is transfixed by its beauty, parking his bike and quickly unloading his paddle and board to get himself close up to the waterfall. Drawn towards it as if magnetised, he paddles slowly off towards the cascade in a state of almost religious worship at the magnificence of this unique setting and experience
It’s been a long road to get here, but this moment of intense beauty is a perfect parallel for the entire trip. The amazing sessions, stunning scenery, and smiling friendly faces will be engraved in our memories for all time. We wanted a total escape and we got it, and we’ll be leaving again enriched by the treasures that this voyage into the unknown, unlike any other, has unearthed for us. SUP
