Traveling with
equipment
Just look again
pictures which I made from our trip last year to Lombok and I found the one I
made on ferry boat. Picture of our poor heavy loaded rent car.
Compare to other
waterman activity, for example diver, surfer or kitesurfer, windsurfer has more
bulky equipment to carry around. Dive activity develop very well in Indonesia,
we could find dive center even in very remote area,so the divers do not need to
bring they own equipment. But not for island hopers surfers, windsurfers and
kiters. Travelling around in most places in Indonesia to find different spots
they have to carry their own for most of the time.
For us it is not so
easy when we like to travel with our windsurf stuff, we are two, me and my
husband are windsurfer, and my husband always insist to carry two set of
equipment, one set for himself and another set for me. One set means, a board
with minimum two rigs. Can you imagine, how bulky it will two board, 4 sails,
minimum 3 masts and 3 booms.
Once we travel from
Bali to Lombok by plane, and at the check in desk the flight refuse to carry
our equipment. Fortunately, I book the ticket by travel agent, so I have
somebody to blame. Oh yes, they deserve to be blamed, we announce before that
we have big bag of windsurf equipment travel with us include the size, the
length, the width, the thickness. After make drama, by shouting, crying,
begging, finally we manage to bring it with different flight.
We learnt too, on our
second trip to Lombok with equipment we used car and crossing to Lombok Island
with ferry boat. Still, we have to learn, we should used a four wheel drive car
to drive along south coast of Lombok. Next time we will arrange our trip
better.
Ours with equipment on the roof
Situation in Ferry Boat
Not enough seat out side, some just laying on the floor
View from the front side
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