This baby just became the world’s youngest water skier, and she’s ADORABLE
She may not be able to walk just yet, but baby Zyla St Onge is a whiz-kid on water.
Just last week, the six-month-old tot managed to glide a staggering 686 feet across a man-made Florida lake.
Dad Keith said that the only reason Zyla didn’t go further was that she’d reached the lake’s end.
About a dozen adults treaded water on either side of Zyla’s path, but the path in the lake ran out of adults as she glided farther away from the shore, at which point she grimaced and let out a few cries.
“If I would have known she was going much longer, we would have more people lined up,” Keith told the Associated Press.
When Zyla and her skis finally sank into the water, dad Keith jumped in within seconds.
“She barely got her head wet,” he said.
The World Barefoot Centre said the feat broke a decades-old record held by Parks Bonifay, who skied at the age of six months and 29 days.
It all began when Keith and his wife noticed Zyla had a particularly strong grip on whoever’s hand she was holding. So they placed her in skis inside the house, pulled her across the carpet and saw that she had a great time doing it.
While Keith’s aware that not everyone thinks it’s appropriate for such a young child to be water skiing, he insists that Zyla’s safety was always their number one priority.
“People don’t realize that it was done properly,” he said. “It was planned and she was ready for it.”
You can watch Zyla’s incredible skills on the water below.