As we waited for the boat the five of us stood there smelling of manure and salt water. I’m sure we were quite an eye sore. We headed straight to the adventure site and really didn’t know what we had signed our selves up for but I was excited. We ran off and put on our wet suits, got our helmets and threw on a life jacket and proceded to jump into this adventure van. He explained that we were driving about 10 minutes away and then would have a 15 minute walk to the cliffs. What do we do once we get to the cliff you ask? Jump into the Irish Sea.

It was at this point that I realized an important life lesson. Always figure out what you sign up for in advance. As we were hiking along the rain had now turned into a drizzle and it was absolutely beautiful. These cliffs just show years and years of amazing rock and the Sea was blue for miles and miles. Our guide Andy stopped above our first cliff and essentially warned us about the 230598234 different ways that we could die and how to prevent these from happening. It was at this point that I got nervous for the first time and then we started to decend the cliff. I was petrified and the rocks were so slippery from the rain. Now these are not cute little cliffs…these were cliffs that if we had bad foot work we would tumble to our rocky deaths. After some careful maneuvering we got to our first jump. I was already weak in the knees and now I was standing on the edge of a cliff about to jump into the Irish Sea. A few people had gone before me so I wasn’t feeling horrible about it but all I know is that I was looking down and just thought to myself, JUMP. The next thing I knew I was hitting the water waiting for my stomach to come back into my body and then I felt a rush of cold and a mouthful of salt. YUK. I came up to air and had the most wonderful feeling in the world. I had just jumped 30ft off a cliff into the Irish Sea! We did some rock climbing at water level so we scaled the cliffs. We went into caves, did cannonballs into the Sea at different jump points and towards the end the sun creeped out and I felt like I had an out of body experience. The three hours of this trip were one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. As we had to start climbing back up and towards the car I just thought to myself what a way to end the trip. We headed back to the car awkwardly (thanks to the wet suits), and ran back to change and get to the St. Patrick Center as we were running late…