Remember that song….
Archive for July, 2004
This is what a start can look like when you have some experience. Wow! Just to avoid the questions: No, I didn’t make a complete round on the wakeboard. I changed to the kneeboard, some sort of little surfboard you kneel on, and that was an awful lot of fun as well. But my time is still to come – I did not give up completely!
Luckily, everybody who dropped out of the course and lost the rope was grabbed of by some guys on bikes that were driving around the course all the time. This time, they got Robin – but he was really good, wakeboarding without binding, on his first day. There was only that one curve being a problem…
This is the course from the starting-hut. It went round behind that strip of green you see on the left side, and there were also some ramps you could theoretically jump over… I didn’t.
This was on saturday, at Bantam. Or so. I can’t keep all the names of these islands in my head… at least I know that it was Indonesia. I don’t know if there is much more on this islands worth a look then this facility, and the adjoining hotel. The factories full of underpaid women and all the prostitution around them certainly is not – just too sad a story, but again, bitter reality here. However: This was wakeboarding day, the rain had started when we entered the ferry, but that could not take our motivation. The fact that Robin’s wife and daughter had to take the first ferry back because Indonesia does not let Swedish people immigrate without some special paper was really sad, but still: We had to get going! Try to image this facility as a ski-lift in the water. There at the hut they give you the rope you hold on to, and then – here you go! It was not that easy, though…