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Photos and Video of 12 Meter Cliff Jumping at South Point Hawaii
Vika Gerassimenko after cliff jumping at South Point Hawaii
Cliff jumping at South Point Hawaii was not one of my dreams. However, because exclusive buyer’s agent Josh Amolsch and his beautiful fiancée Vika Gerassimenko are visiting us over the Labor Day weekend at our house in Hawaii, we supported Vika’s leap off the cliff at South Point. As I explained in the car, if somebody was chasing me, firing a gun in my direction and threatening to kill me, I might find a reason to leap off this cliff. Otherwise, no.
But cliff jumping at South Point was a goal Vika needed to accomplish. I can understand that. We all have goals we want to achieve in life. It is very important that once we picture a goal in our minds that we realize our dream. The thing is anything you can imagine you can pretty much do, within the realm of reason. I say this because I might say I want to dance on the head of a pin, and I know that won’t happen. OK, maybe a pinhead. I would dance on a pinhead. I know a lot of pinheads. Sorry to admit.
Josh Amolsch jumps off the cliff at South Point Hawaii
I would be remiss if I didn’t say that I was unaware that Josh opted in for cliff jumping at South Point. After all, like he put it, if Vika jumps and he does not, I would write about it, even though I assured him I would not need to point out that fact. In any case, I suspect Vika encouraged him to take a risk, to put his life at risk, and to engage in cliff jumping at South Point. Although, after watching his face when he emerged from the water, well, let’s just say he was stoked.
Vika Gerassimenko, Elizabeth Weintraub and Josh Amolsch at South Point Hawaii
Here are the three of us after both Vika and Josh had completed cliff jumping at South Point Hawaii. I’m such a short little squeak sandwiched between these two giants. There are so many ways to die that I don’t need to elaborate. I am reminded of it every day. Like how the poet Tom Clark, buddy of Allen Ginsberg, was killed after walking a few blocks from his home in Berkeley when he was hit by a car. Stuff happens every day that we can’t always anticipate or prevent.
Cliff diving at South Point Hawaii? Well, it’s preventable. However, if you’re really into the excitement of it all, here is a video of Josh Amolsch leaping into the abyss:
The Fourth of July at Squaw Valley and Kailua-Kona
The Fourth of July at Squaw Valley, starring Victoria Gerrassimenko.
The Fourth of July at Squaw Valley sounds like a perfect place to be this time of year. Josh Amolsch from the Elizabeth Weintraub Team and his girlfriend, Vika Gerrassimenko, were on vacation at Lake Tahoe and spent the 4th of July snowboarding. It was warm there, too, although not as warm as where I was in Hawaii.
I mentioned to Josh that I might be too old to try snowboarding. While I can live vicariously through Josh and his 4th of July at Squaw Valley, it’s not a sport I will ever take up. I can paddleboard, though. Put a plus check mark in the sport box for me. Learned how to paddleboard in Hawaii. They say women make better stand-up paddleboarders because our center of gravity is lower, so we can more easily maintain our balance.
Paddleboarding, for me, almost didn’t happen. I tried a bunch of times, and I could not stand up. My husband wasn’t faring any better. He headed to shore. I almost gave up, but then I said, you know, I’m gonna give this one more try. And voila! I stood up, and ever since, I’ve never had a problem.
Josh Amolsch from the Elizabeth Weintraub Team celebrated the Fourth of July at Squaw Valley.
People give up on things too easily. You can get anything you want through perseverance. That’s a fact, Jack. You gotta really want it though. I did not want to learn how to ski. That’s what Josh said he sees old people do, instead of snowboarding, they ski. I tried twice and it was one time too many. But that’s because I did not want to learn how to ski. I tried to do it to appease a couple of men, because they wanted me to do it. Which is stupid, stupid, stupid.
The first time was with my third husband. I have wedding photos showing me wearing a Southern Belle white wedding dress, accentuated by ski boots. I fell down a number of times. Wasn’t even drunk but wish I had been. I tried again with another boyfriend who was an enthusiast, and let’s just say when my cat Brandon urinated on the bag holding his skis, I should have taken that as a sign. I was young and foolish. I may still be foolish but I’m not young anymore.
Vika Gerassimenko snowboarding on the Fourth of July in Squaw Valley.
Then you look at Josh’s girlfriend, Victoria. I swear, she cannot take a bad photo. The woman is beautiful. And smart. She could stumble off a red-eye flight and still look gorgeous.
So they spent the 4th of July at Squaw Valley snowboarding. It was warm enough to wear a swimsuit, which apparently some people did. Look at Josh in shorts in the photo up above.
Below is my photograph of my 4th of July in Kailua-Kona. Our vacation house sits just up the hill, a straight line from the beach at a higher elevation. When the fireworks went off, I had a front row balcony view. The finale was pretty cool, but it’s hard to take photos of fireworks with an iPhone. Where that lower pink light explodes, that’s into the horizon of the ocean.
Fireworks in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on the Fourth of July.
