Caroline, Sydney, Steph, Korissa, and I decided to challenge ourselves and swim out to rocks located about a football field's length out in the water. Once we reached them, it was not easy to climb up primarily because of the dozens and dozens of sea urchins that were covering the rocks. Sydney and Steph managed to get up first while Caroline and I had a more difficult time. We finally persevered but not after multiple attempted paths trying to dodge the sea urchins. Korissa was a few minutes behind, because she swam back to the beach to get Steph's waterproof camera. Unfortunately, when she was climbing up, she stepped directly on an urchin! Ouch. Actually, we all ended up finding cuts and scrapes on our bodies. Steph had a cut on the top of our foot, and Caroline and I had ones on our hands. Cara, Reid, and Everett joined us a little while later, and we thought it was going to be hilarious watching them try to climb the rocks (Steph even had the video function on her camera ready), but they got up with ease! I'm not sure why we had a substantially hard time, and they did not!!
Stephanie and Sydney on the rocks. If you look closely, you can see Caroline
and me struggling to get up!
and me struggling to get up!
Finally made it!
Damage control on Korissa's foot
Cuts on our hands from the sea urchins
Everett, Reid, and Cara joining us
The girls and Ev
Back into the water!
I bet it would hurt if you stepped on that...We spent a good hour or so on the rocks and then swam back. When we got back to the beach, Reid dug a huge hole claiming that he was trying to "get to China". I reminded him that, not only would digging all the way through the core of the Earth from America not land you in China (but instead somewhere in the middle of the ocean), but we were in Italy so it would have to lead you somewhere else... the Pacific perhaps?
Reid's hole to "China"We left later with some great memories and sunburns!
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