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As a Pro-kiteboarder I have the privilige to go
to the most beautiful places of the world. Every
now & then, I will try and give you some
insight on those beautiful places and cool trips
by writing a little tripreport.
You can find them here.
If you are thinking of visiting one of those
supercool places, be sure to ask the sportstravel
specialist happy sports! They now where and when
to go, so contact them and be sure you have the
best time!
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St. Thomas, US
virgin Islands
Tomorrow it's finally so
far...I'm trading this cold Holland for the warm and
nice weather place St Thomas USVI. I'm going there to
see my girlfriend again and ofcourse to relax and
kiteboard/surf. I'll be there for a month and ofcourse
i'll keep you guys updated with almost :P everything
what i'm doing there! i'm going to buy a photo-camera
and take lots of pictures of the beautiful island
and the kiting action ofcourse!!
Friday 16th of
december I woke up at 5am to go take a quick shower and
get ready to go to the airport. My flight was at 8.35am
so I was really on time. when I came for the check in I
had my boardbag, a weekend bag and my backpack with my
guitar sticking out of it. I had piece concept that
means you can take two pieces of luggage that can be 23
kilos each! and normally i'm always overweight and now I
had some kilos over! my first flight was from Amsterdam
to Madrid. In Madrid I had to wait for 2,5 hours for my
connection flight to San Juan (Puerto Rico) but that
flight had a delay from 50 minutes. but it didn't really
matter because I had to wait on San Juan for 2,5 hours.
and the delay would only mean less waiting there. I got
in the plain and there was no one sitting next to me so
I thought sweet relaxing, but I couldn't rase the arm
seat in the middle couse it was stuck. half way I
changed my time to puerto rico time (-5GTM I think).
when I came down to San Juan and went to immigration
first they didn't let me enter the USA...
because I didn't know the street name where I
would be staying so I had to make a phone call and ask
for the address. then it was ok and they let me in. so I
went down to get my luggage from the belt and walked to
my next flight. but they hold me at customs and I had to
open my bags. I had nothing so I could go. dropped my
bags at the place where you drop your bags. and went
waiting for my last flight to St. Thomas. When I arrived
My girl friend was waiting for my outside. We went to
pickup my bags but they only one bag had arrived. and
the next flight landed an hour later. so we went to town
to see whats up and then went back to the airport to get
my other bag.
The first day I went out over the
balcony and I was shocked...the view is so pretty like
right now i'm typing this story and looking over out on
Magens bay and it is paradise. there was wind and we
went kiting it was a little bit gusty but it was ok
after a month of no kiting. I went out on 13m2 and had a
nice session. after kitting we went for some food
because we where so hungry it wasn't even funny so I got
this huge sandwich with curry-chicken and swiss cheese
and it was so nice. but it was so big that I was full
for dinner. after coming home from dinner we went to
sleep.
today I woke up and had some nice crapes
for breakfast and it's blowing harder then yesterday so
its gonna be a good nice session today.
Sunday we
went to the harbor to buy a camera. There where two
cruise ships in and they where massive. I got a pretty
good deal with the camera so I was stoked. After buying
the cam we went to the kiting spot. I wanted to test my
new toy but the battery was empty. so I went kiting on
my 13m2. It was stronger then the day before so had fun,
but my lower back was killing me. I don't know how it
comes but its not nice! So went home and chilled played
some guitar. Had dinner and went of to
bed.
Monday woke up chilled some and went on tour
with my girl's bro. second time I drove an automatic and
it went pretty cool with driving on the left side of the
road and no clue what so ever who had priority. We went
to go for a kiting session and we got there safe, but it
was for me way to light, but he could go a little bit on
his 12m2 but not really. I went in the water to finally
test my new toy and it was sick!! the wind wasn't that
good so didn't take to many action pictures. when the
wind dropped almost al the way we went in the swimming
pool for a photo session. and it was hilarious we
laughing our socks of.
The alarm dad came to wake
us up to go and drop stuff of at the place we are going
for Xmas and new year... and we went with the
helicopter!! that was my first time in one. and it was
sick I got the shotgun (frontseat) so I could look
around and I can tell you that it was sick...we landed
there and dropped stuff at the bungalows and went
swimming for a little while and that island is so
pretty. on the way back I had the shotgun again and this
time it was sick we went between rocks and we made a
drop of at a cliff...the pilot is the bomb (pilot was
mom) but the island doesn't have internet so you have to
miss my updates for a day or 10... but don't worry I
will update you after we come back...that night we had
Xmas dinner with the family. I got tonz of presents I
was stoked
today my back felt a lot better and I
went kiting... I was overpowered on my 15m2 and I had a
good session... after the great session we went to go
load up the helicopter for the last round to bring stuff
to the place where we're going. after that had to pick
someone up from the airport, but he had an hour delay so
we went to get some frozen yoghurt. and then picked him
up...after we picked him up we went to Caribbean surf
company. to spend our gift certificates... the store
stayed open just for us and we where the only ones in
there I felt VIP. Tomorrow morning early we going with
the helicopter to the pretty place...
Saturday we
woke up at 7ish because we had to leave with the
helicopter to the place where we going to stay from
today until the 5th of January. So you never fly in a
helicopter and so you fly its as if it were a car... we
landed on the secret spot and It is so pretty here its
unbelievable. we got to go kiting and we where
overpowered with our 13m2. It was raining and cloudy all
day but we went out with a camera and took some nice
filming shizznit. so after this trip i'll probably make
a movie. then you'll really get an idea how beautiful it
here is. couse you can look at pictures and it may say
more then a thousand words but it's nothing compared
with the real deal. After the kiting session we took al
the food in the bungalows and took a shower. After the
shower we had dinner and after dinner we went to watch a
movie, but we fell asleep on that...
Sunday
morning we woke up from the light that came in the room.
I checked out the window to see if it was windy and it
was. We went up to the same spot as we did the day
before, but this time we didn't had to walk with our
gear... we put the gear in the zodiac and walked up the
beach and 1 man got the stuff at the place. it looked
really light...so I pumped up my 13m2 and I was perfect
on it... sometimes even overpowered...It was sick after
a day kiting taking pictures I went with the truck to
the place where we had the gear, but then you had to go
off the off-road so we did that but it didn't really
worked out so we turned around and went to a nice bar
and had some nice drinks. I drove the gear after that
home with a few people. Took a shower and had christmas
dinner... and did a few beers... now i'm gonna watch the
movie we didn't finish yesterday.
Monday for a
change its sunny again, but there was no wind... too
bad... so we put a inflatable trampoline in the water
and had some fun on that... when we got sick of that
thing we went snorkeling... it was beautiful and there
where a lot of fish. When my feet started to hurt from
the to small flippers we swum back to shore. We had our
minds on wakeboarding. So we put the boat in the water
and started the engine. Suddenly the people on the beach
where like screaming... WOW.... so I looked back and
there was a small tornado coming towards us... and I
turned my back into it and it hit me with sand... well
after the sick tornado experience we went
wakeboarding... I was the first to try. I got in the
water, grabbed the handle and gave thumps up! The boat
got into motion... SNAP... the rope broke on two places,
because it was pretty old. After redoing it like 4 times
it finally lasted. All the people were done and we got
back to the beach and took a hot shower. For dinner we
had lobster that other people caught. For me it was the
first time I had lobster and it was nicer then I
expected. For desert we had fruits. To live the
tradition we watched an other movie...Pretty woman...We
where so tiered from the whole day being busy that we
fell asleep.
Tuesday no wind again... So today we
took it nice and slow... We build up a tent, because we
lost our bungalow for tonight. So we have to sleep in a
tent 1 night. It wasn't really hard to put it up even
though we didn't had a map to show us where, how and
when everything had to go. With 10 people we went
snorkeling only this time out side the reef... It was
too far to swim so we took a dingy... Normally for 4
persons but this time we fit all 10 in there... and I
can tell you if there where more people the dingy was on
the bottom of the ocean. So we got to the place and
dropped the anchor. Put our gear on and got out of the
boat... When I looked under water. it was so beautiful.
You can't write it down without a pen. We saw some sick
animals... Like fish and a ray. We swam through some
caves. When we came back we just chilled the rest of the
day. Tuna was the fish for dinner tonight. I had mine
medium and it was perfect. When dinner was finished my
back started to hurt again... so I went to lie down and
watched the rest of pretty woman. At bed time we went
down to the tent that we set up on the beach. After a
shadow movie from Madi we fell asleep.
Wednesday
we woke up in a tent and it is my girls B-day. The surf
was up so some people went surfing in the morning. When
they came back we had some breakfast. Madi and Garett
got the movie " Auto Focus" so of course we watched it
right away. It's a sick movie... but what in space
monkeys 2 where waves are sliders in this movie... so
instead of a lot of waves, they give you a lot of
sliders. My rating is 7,5. When we finished the movie we
put our gear in the dingy and walked up the beach. When
we came to the spot it looked windy so I pumped up my
13m2... but after some tacks I went in and pumped my
15m2 and even with my 15m2 I had to walk up the beach...
after a long time walking up the beach my foot strap
popped out and I was hungry so I decided to quit. Put my
kites and board in the dingy and walked down the beach
to the bungalows. Got some food and went for a shower.
For dinner we had french fries and Belgian mayonnaise.
For desert there was ice cream... I had "chocolate chip
cookie dough" from Ben & Jerry's. Because my back
still hurts I got some stretching exercises from Jose
(the owner of Caribbean surf company). and my back feels
a lot better after that session...Later we watched a
movie "Die Another Day" but I was fighting my sleep but
fell asleep in the first 15 min.
Thursday same
story... We woke up and had our breakfast, loaded up the
dingy with the kite gear and we walked over the beach to
the same spot we always go to. I thought it was windy
for my 13m2 but Garett was not even going so well on his
14m2 so I pumped my 15m2 again... did some walks on the
beach and made some crashes. Then I took an under water
camera and made some nice shots of Madi, Derek, Garett
and my honey came by a few times to. After a hour I was
cold and I got out of the aqua. I got hungry so I went
back for some lunch... then watched "American pie 4:
band camp" and it was so funny... after the movie I
wanted to go back and pack my stuff, but then my girl
already packed it... guess I o her. today there was
pasta with red meat sauce or lobster sauce. I picked the
red meat. and it was mmm. when we had finished someone
asked me to get my guitar and he played some and made up
some funny songs. For a change we didn't watched a movie
but we played a game of back gammon, read and went to
sleep.
Friday it was blowing. so we put sunscreen
on and had breakfast. this time I also took my 11m2 to
the spot, but when we cam there it had decreased and it
was good for 15m2.till after like half a hour the wind
turned a little bit and it was offshore...so we packed
our gear and wanted too check for an other place to
kite. So we first went back to home base and some people
went with the car too look if there was wind in the
other place. They came back with bad news. the direction
was good but it had decreased to much. So we watched a
movie "Die Another Day" the one we fell asleep on two
days ago. Of course at the end of the movie Mr. Bond had
sex. Then we chilled and took showers. Madi and Garett
are making a slider. That's gonna be fun!! But because
there is almost nothing on the island its from scrap.
Dinner was on the beach. We looked through the Guinness
book of records. Went to bed read some and went to
sleep...
Another saturday in paradise... When we
came out of bed the dingy was already gone with all the
gear. I made my girl breakfast. When we got to the
kiting spot everybody was already on the water. The wind
blew good for my 15m2... but I didn't quite feel it...
so I took a break and went in the water to get some
shots. It was blowing for my 11m2 when I came out of the
water... but I was hungry so I got something to eat. I
pumped up my 11m2, switched it with my 15m2 and asked
for a launch. It felt so good finally with a smaller
kite than 15m2. After I crashed to much I took a break.
In that break it was raining like...WOW... When Madi
went in the water with his new water housing for his new
camera I went back in. It was still cranking. When the
wind turned a little bit light and I was exhausted, I
went to shore to pack up and load up the dingy. After we
fought the munches, we took a shower and prepared
ourself for dinner on the beach. After dinner we build a
camp fire and after the camp fire we took a nap. When
mom woke us up we went to "the reef hotel" for a couple
of drinks and some dancing. till
10..........9.........8........7.......6......5.....4....3...2..1.
Happy New year!!!!
The First day of the year
2006. The wind kept blowing whole night and got even
stronger... so I wanted to pack my 9m2 but I discovered
that I was missing 1 stick for in my wing tip so I just
took my 11m2. This time we took the car for a sweet down
winder. When I went out I was loaded on my 11m2. Then a
big squall came and it started to get really windy and
we took some massive jumps and then went to shore
because after a squall the wind dies... when it stopped
raining the wind came back 10 min. later and we where
ready for the down winder. I was cranking on my 11m2 and
just went super high and did some old skool tricks...
When we came to the point of arrival the wind died a bit
but came up stronger a few minutes later. So I took a
small break and got something to eat. Then went back out
for the last old skool session of the day. When we got
back I was so flipping tired I took a shower and went to
sleep... at 5:30 p.m.
The start of a new week
here. We finished the slider, with thanks to the man
with the tools... its not that big of a slider, but we
made it out of scrap and its funny. We loaded it up in
the truck and brought it to the spot where we always
kite. When we walked up the beach it was already in the
water... the wind didn't drop, so I wanted my 9m2, but 1
stick was missing so I was McGeyver for a second and
fixed myself a stick of a piece of PVC. So when I pumped
up my 9m2. I was stoked and it was perfect for my 9m2...
There was a nice swell coming in so I went outside the
reef for a nice wave riding session... After that day I
was dead and i'm gonna take a break from kiting tomorrow
and take some rest. After a nice swordfish and pasta
dinner. We started a movie and of course didn't finish
it and went to sleep.
Tuesday rest day. It was
pretty windy again, but my body was tiered so I took a
break, but than I heard it was not gonna be windy for
the next days. So I decided that I'd take a rest
morning. so I chilled a bit finished my book and watched
a movie: "Oceans eleven". when that was finished we went
up to the spot. where everybody just came of the water,
because the wind decreased for a few minutes. So
everybody was pumping 13m2 and 15m2, but I only brought
my 9m2 and 11m2 to the spot. So I pumped my 11m2 and
when I was good to go, the wind picked back up and I was
perfect on it. I kited for 1, 1,5 hour and then it
started to get cold. So I went back to the beach. When
we wrapped up the stuff we walked back home. Took a nice
warm shower, played some guitar and went to dinner.
After dinner there was a show by the children here. When
they were done I grabbed my guitar and played some sweet
tunezzz and went to bed.
Wednesday...No wind. We
had no milk any more so we took the truck and went to
get some, but the stores were still closed. On the way
back we came by a bakery and stopped for some banana
bread, cinnamon buns and some eggs. When we got back I
already was stuffed. So I passed for breakfast. We
watched the movie: "Oceans twelve". when the movie was
finished we loaded up the truck with people and
snorkeling gear and went for some sick lobster hunting.
It is pretty rough to catch them. I didn't caught any.
But I saw a ray. After the snorkeling session we got
back to the bungalows and chilled, before we went down
to a bar, for some alcoholic drinks. Most of us had to
much and that was pretty funny. When we came back I was
so tiered and went to bed.
We got back to st.
Thomas with the Bertram (a boat) the ocean was pretty
flat so we had a nice and quit ride. When we reached the
dock it was already dark. So we unloaded the clothes and
things we needed and the rest we picked up the following
day. The next day we got up at 6:30 am to go surfing in
"Hull Bay" on probably the cleanest waves of the year
(well the year just started, but from last year). Then
the wind started to pick up and the next day we went out
kiting at "Linquist Beach" first on my 13m2 but that was
not enough so I came in and pumped up my 15m2. It was
pretty funny because every sunday there is music there
and a lot of people. So we gave a nice show. The wind
kept picking up so the next day I was good on my 13m2 at
the same beach. After that the wind turned a bit so we
went out with the Bertram to "Hans Lollick" and there
were some nice waves and a lot of wind. I was
overpowered on my 13m2 but I was to lazy to pump up my
11m2. I took my new camera and got some sweet clips.
When we were finished. It was almost dark when the
engines of the boat started and we were gone... there
was just enough light to go out side the reef. when we
got home we had some nice lasagna.
The last
couple of days we had sweet winds. Twice with 13m2, once
with 15m2 and once with 11m2.
Friday the 13th and
full moon...I went out to dinner with my girl...After a
sweet dinner we went for ice cream but it was
closed...So we went to "Blockbuster" to get some sweet
"ben & jerry's"... Because it was full moon, there
was a full moon party. everything was sick the music,
the people. I don't know what went wrong, but the party
didn't got started at "duffy's". So we went to another
place called : The bouda bar. was a bit better, but
still didn't got started. so we went back
home.
When I went to the airport my girl dropped
me of and I went on my way home. |
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