One of the excur­sions we’ve done on our Carib­bean honey­moon cruise was to climb up the treache­rous “Dunn’s River Falls” in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.

These falls are world-​​famous and one of the most in-​​demand excur­sions in the Jamai­can port of call. It was stun­ningly beau­ti­ful, and the falls were gorgeous.

But, the climb was not as easy as it seems. We had to climb up close to 1,000 feet up seve­ral steep rocks, while batt­ling strong, raging waters hit­ting against you at 40 miles an hour.

And guess what? It’s all cap­tu­red on video.

The trek itself took us about an hour. But this video, taken by the Jamai­can cruise staff, was edi­ted down to the high­lights — only about 20 minu­tes worth.

My family and I appear about 5 times throughout the video, for about 5–15 seconds each time (while there were about 300 peo­ple taking part in the excur­sion, there were seve­ral came­ra­men and ours follo­wed our group, about 30 peo­ple, up the falls).

By the way, these came­ra­men were ama­zing. Bare­feet, they climb up the falls without any pro­blems, and made it all look so easy. Well, it wasn’t that easy, let me assure you!

These sce­nes were mostly at or around brief stops along the way, where the rocks were level enough to stand up. (There are about 5 of these “stops,” which were beau­ti­ful van­tage points and a great way to take a rest!)

One par­ti­cu­lar scene is of Syl­vie and I kis­sing under the water­falls. It’s an abso­lu­tely ama­zing shot. (There’s a photo of it in the pre­vious post, if you recall.)

You’ll notice my family when you see me in a white t-​​shirt, goa­tee and toasty tan. (I’m pee­ling right now, big time!) I was as red as a tomato when I retur­ned to Canada.

The only one mis­sing in the video is Megan, my dauther, who bac­ked out at the last minute because she had a killer migraine.

I know my daugh­ter enough to know this was true. She wasn’t being squea­mish or sca­red, and using the hea­dache as an excuse. In fact, she was really loo­king for­ward to the climb and felt pretty bad about mis­sing out.

(She loves these kinds of things, any­way. For exam­ple, during the para­sai­ling excur­sion, she was all exci­ted while her part­ner on the ride, Sylvie’s daugh­ter Celeste, was screa­ming for bloody mur­der! Megan was the kind of kid who, when she was only 6–7 years old, would run — not walk, run! — to the sca­riest rides at the local fair, making her nail-​​bitting dad cringe in horror.)

Anyhow, check out the video below to watch (about 20 minu­tes long). Simply click “play” (the arrow but­ton below) to watch…

Still stay tuned for more pic­tu­res, inc­lu­ding the family para­sai­ling, dolphins, shop­ping, swim­ming, and more!

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