Swimmers beware..

Saturday Chaz and Gil organized a boat outing on Lake Travis, and one of my friends from Gatesville brought down his Jetski for us to ride around. Our cove was terrifically smooth for sliding and skating around, but the main core of the lake was full of chop. On the jetski it was particularly painful to be breaching and bouncing through wakes and waves. I'm still paying for it today.

The boat was just a pontoon boat, nothing fancy, but nice enough to tie up and float around with perch nibbling at my legs. Chaz made a lunch of jerk chicken sandwiches, chips, and a dessert of blackberry cobbler and ice cream.  In full summer heat, he had solid ice cream kept in a cooler with dry ice.

I kind of like Gil's boat club - he pays a set amount monthly for a year, and can check out a boat just about any weekday, and reserve 1 weekend day per month - though if a boat isn't being reserved on a weekend day, it's up for grabs. Sure sounds better than buying, insuring, towing, and eventually selling a boat on your own.  Maybe later on when the financial situation turns around.  Nonetheless, it sure is fun having friends with watercraft!