Jetskiing!

A few months ago, my friend bought a new jetski. It was a really hot day and we decided to take it out to Windsor river to play around with it.

They had also bought a couple of tubes that you tie on the back for people to sit in.

I started off having a turn on the tube. I had been once before behind a boat, but never behind a jetski, so I thought that I'd give it another go.

Let me tell you, riding in those tubes is not as much fun as it looks, it is actually quite painful.

When you are being dragged along, it feels like you are being kicked continuously. It really hurts! That is, until you learn how to sit so that you're not actually touching the part of the tube that is hitting the water. 

Apart from being dragged along water that felt like concrete, I was being splashed by so much water that I couldn't open my eyes and being choked to death by the poisonous fumes of the jetski.

It wasn't so bad when the operator of the jetski was going a little slower, but the majority of the time, he wasn't.

I do feel lucky though, they did have a little more sympathy and were a little easier on me because I'm a girl. 

When it's just the guys being towed, they go so fast and are continually zigzagging across the water so that the tubes jump up in the air, and the guys try to kick each other off. 


My tube jumped up into the air a couple of times and me and the tube almost landed in my boyfriend's lap, who was in the tube next to me.


When we were finished, the owner of the jetski offered to take me for a ride on the actual jetski.


It was actually a lot more fun than I thought. I imagined the ride to be rough and thought that I'd be clinging on for dear life, but it was exactly the opposite. 


The jetski ride was so smooth and was just so much fun. It felt even safer than a speed boat ride. The jetski didn't skip on top of the water, it glided through it.

When we got back, he asked if I wanted to ride the jetski and offered to show me how. I was really keen to try it, but unfortunately, we couldn't get it started again.

A little disappointing, but there's always next time! 


Lela xx