Thursday, 26 February 2009

Barra, Cars and wake boards.

The great Aussie Barramundi are really easy to catch every cast lands a fish -forget oceans and rivers it's a lot more fun if you fish on a fish farm!
What happens if you a child's ride on Action Man electric car with a top speed of 4km an hour and squeeze in a nice big Honda engine in? You crash at speeds up to 60km an hour, cool !


This is perhaps the most insane mode of transport I have ever tried to ride. First off Dan did a demonstration hurtling along the pond banks bouncing in the air with a trail of dust and stones before a slight miss calculation caused him to end up on two wheels around a corner and come flying off. Well I had been threw all the safely brief - "she's pretty wild mate,don't come off!"

The clutch in on a switch so it is on or off, forget gently letting the clutch out! I turned up the revs switch the clutch on an before I new It I was flying along on the pond bank on two wheels with the front wheels in the air. Flicking the clutch off brought the front wheels down so I hit the switch again and was once again looking at the clouds. I made it about thirty meters on the back wheels leaning forward trying to get the front onto the ground before a corner. Then due to a slight bout of extreme terror my clenched hands were left holding a little plastic steering wheel which was no longer attached to the car. At that point I came flying off the back skidding along the gravel. Dan came running over to me as I lay wide eyed, white knuckled and still clenching the steering wheel - "That was awesome, Mate"
Post crash reconstruction - don't try this at home kids!



At the cable ski park waiting to be pulled violently from the edge. If you survive the start you then fly across the water around a lake being pulled by an overhead cable until you hit a ramp fly into the air smash into the water face first. By some complete fluke and of course a lot of skill I even landed a jump and kept on going, much to the disappointment of the onlookers who really enjoyed my "stack it" technique! I am limping about today like a cripple and everything aches but it was fantastic fun.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Mum is instructing me on how to use comment.
I love your blog and read it regularly.
It looks as if you have had a smashing time with the cousins and friends.
Mum is looking after me marvellously. I am getting better every minute.
Love
Gran