Water like glass


Sorry for playing hookey for the last day or two. It was for a good cause: Wind speed 0 mph, wave height non-existent, technical description: calm as bath water. So a friend and I have been hitting it extra early, gliding over a dark green watery mirror as sson as it was lit by a flaming red rising sun. That’s me at about 8 AM just past the intersection of the Pedernales River and Lake Travis, central Texas, on my beloved Hyperlite wakeboard with Ronix boots that fit like little foot-gloves. With the back fins off on water that silky smooth, this board spins like a top, it’s almost like riding a big, polished frisbee over water. We rode and fell and  fell and rode, until our bruised and battered middle-aged bodies could take no more. What are you doing this weekend?

Comments

  1. carpenterman says

    Well… nothing that good, that’s for damn sure.
    I do have a rehearsal for *Inherit the Wind* this Sunday. And when we perform that in late July, that will be (for me) far better than wakeboarding.
    But wow… that does look like fun.

  2. jakc says

    I remember when a friend of mine took a job down on the southern plains. Prior to that, he and I and a few friends used to go skiing on glassy, cold mountain lakes – drinking beer instead if it was a little choppy. He bought a boat. A year, he sold the boat and bought a windsurfer. If the water was glassy in Texas, you had to ditch and go skiing.

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