Incredible Leaping Cat

Sep 9th, 2008: (Plaktia, Crete) A cat sat near a tidal pool watching fish swim just out of reach. There was no obvious path back to shore for kitty without getting wet. However, in a few minutes, he began working his way from rock to rock eventually reaching a point where the only path forward was to jump five or six feet to the next rock followed by an even longer jump to reach dry land. I figured no way a water hating cat would jump that distance, however, he soon began pacing back and forth so I readied my camera and captured him in mid air. Kitty completed the first jump without getting wet and he almost made the second jump which was even longer than the first but landed in shallow water and sprinted ashore walking up to sit beside us. As we were in Greece, I considered kitty's jump to be a point 9.8 on the Olympic scale.