Banana Boat Rides

Banana Boat Rides
We experienced these for the first time Memorial Day Weekend in 2004. We had joined a bunch of our friends to camp at Okuma for this holiday weekend. Everyone kept telling us we had to ride the banana boats, sooooo, we did! There was an age requirement, so Ty & Ry had to stay on shore. It was great ‘cause we just tag teamed with friends watching each others little rug rats while we took turns riding these boats. A banana boat is just like a long cylinder raft. You straddle it and hang on to the rope and another faster boat takes you out in the ocean. Oh, you are also required to wear a life jacket and a helmet! Now, this is what happens. The driver of the boat takes you out to the ocean and than goes really fast and creates all kinds of waves. Your job is to hang on to your rope so you are NOT thrown off! The driver of the boat is determined to have all the screaming occupants on his banana boat OFF! I was doing really good until Ed leaned over and started tickling me. JERK!!! Of course, I let go and went flying, literally FLYING! I now understood why you had to wear a helmet! Vicki was in the air right after me. We were laughing soo hard while waiting for the driver to come back around and let us climb back on our banana boat. It was totally fun, however, I didn’t like that feeling of treading water deep in the ocean and not knowing what might be below me! LOL!