Kitesoul Magazine #24 International Edition

and unknown, where the air is filled with the
pounding of the waves and the wild yells of
sea birds." Those were the words of Australian
John Davis, who was in the team of the
first successful climbers that made it to the
summit on 14th February 1965.
Ball’s Pyramid offers astonishing diving and
fishing, but Mother Nature even outdid herself
on top of that. I was sitting on the bow,
staring in total happiness out to the horizon,
when suddenly a large pod of bottleneck dolphins
came up all around the front of the boat,
playfully swimming with us as we steamed
along. Everything seemed utterly surreal
when one of them launched nearly 10 meters
up in the air right in front of me, with the pyramid
in the backdrop. I had to pinch myself
to make sure I wasn’t dreaming! Freediving a
little later in more than 600m deep water that
was the strongest and deepest shades of blue
that I have ever experienced, I felt like a mermaid.
I could not get the big grin off my face