Al had his Stag (Bachelor Party for the North Americans) Weekend at Lake Havasu. I was lucky enough to be invited for a weekend of fun in the sun.
Lake Havasu is on the Border of California and Arizona, however we were staying in Lake Havasu City which is in Arizona. There were 7 of us there for the whole three days with an additional 2 for half the time. Myles was also there so 2 kiwis, 3 Candians and 4 Americans made up the ranks.
Jeff has both a boat and a house in Lake Havasu so we essentially spent 3 days on the boat checking out all the local sights, gorges, sandbars & coves drinking, swimming, tubing, wake boarding and then more drinking. Lake Havasu is a lovely spot. The weather was perfect as was the temperature of the water. You could spend all day in the water and the air temps were into the mid 40 degrees each day. I guess it is in the middle of the desert but we should be thankful they did not get towards 50 degrees as happens often during the summer.
I got very sunburnt on the last day but that was just cause I was slack. I had managed to spend 2 full days out there without getting burnt then in half a day I roasted myself. Half a bottle of Alovera After Sun cream helped cure the pain however.
One of the great spots was called the sandbar. It as the name eludes too is a large sandbar where everyone anchors and walks round with a beverage and hangs out. It was also a good spot for throwing a frisbee or footy ball round. There must have been close to 200 boats there (this was a very small part of the whole lake). Seriously this was not even a busy weekend but I have never seen anything like this place. The gluttony, unsustainability and as I realized sheer fun of the place means it is not even close to replicated anywhere downunder or in few other places round the world. There were so many expensive boats there and with the price of fuel it is far from a cheap for of relaxation. Still for a one-off weekend it was well worthwhile. Come to think of it, it may not be a one off weekend :-)
Tubing at Lake Havasu from Kurt Janssen on Vimeo.
As the Above video portrays we had some wicked times on the tube. Jeff would start out easy enough, well initially anyhows then would go bonkers. Mate the water really hurts when you hit it at 35+ miles per hour. Prob much more with the actually tube speed compared to the boat speed due to all them centrifugal physics laws. The worst part of it was when your buddy lands on you. I remember one wipe out where John literally slides over my face. Kinda surreal really.
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