Weee! Over the last two weeks, me and Lukie went kitesurfing and wakeboarding.
Wakeboarding is when you get a kiteboard and you hold a rope with a handle on the end. The rope is tied to the dingy. To get up the dingy drives forward and you get pulled along while you hold onto the handle.
If you let go of the handle you will start sinking because you have nothing to hold you up (unless you are going really fast, then you skid along the water for about five seconds). Sometimes we fall off (it can be quite brutal, I fell and bumped my forehead). Here are some pictures, enjoy!
Wakeboarding is really fun but also quite difficult. Kitesurfing is also really hard until you get it. I managed to get up on the board and I went flying at about a hundred kilometres an hour. I flopped the kite on the water, so I could stop. Man, kite surfing is fun but also super-duper scary. I ham, I mean I am, so happy and grateful that I got up.
Lukie is about to get up, he is getting the feel for the board. We do this kite surfing on a sandspit in Musket Cove. The sandspit is perfect for starters and getting up on the board.
On Friday we are leaving for Vanuatu. It will be a four-day passage so before we go we need to reinforce our food supplies. Today we are leaving to Denarau to stock up until Friday.
For home-schooling, Lukie is doing an inquiry about saltwater crocodiles and apparently they live in Vanuatu, and we are going there! Oh no, I knew it would end this way. “Really?” says Lukie. “No, I didn’t know it would end this way.” But it might, you never know. Do you know?
Another thing is that saltwater crocodiles can swim very far. Maybe even to New Zealand!
Yesterday we went wakeboarding with a friend called George who we also snorkelled with. We went snorkelling just behind the sand spit on an abyss going down to about two hundred (I think) meters in depth.
SV Bob The Cat 