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Posted on May 10, 2008 @ 5:54 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, indonesia, philippines, sailing, travel, wordpress

gili trawangan aynaku travel illustration

Lightnings are electrical discharges, giant sparks of electricity, from mature storms. Lightnings cause a lot of electric current to pass through water; wooden boats are not safe at all since the vast majority of lightning injuries and deaths occur on small boats with no cabin…
The short sea passage between Gili Trawangan and Gili Air found me on board a small local boat without a cabin. It is always crucial to listen to the weather on a small aquatic vessel: during that early afternoon at sea, the sky was threatening, thunderstorms were forecast and lightnings too…
When the first powerful strike came and the air filled with static electricity on a giant scale, the anxious boatman pumped up the engine, trying to get the boat fast, trying to get to land and find a safe building: actually it was raining and pouring! The storm went on for half an hour and our navigation turned out to be very uncomfortable…
When we got Gili Air’s sandy beach at last, everything was over: off course!

Illustration Friday’s topic is: elettricity

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5 people have left comments

This is a very creative image and as an ex-boater, I liked your tale.

Connie Martin wrote on May 10, 2008 - 7:13 pm CEST

ohh that must have been a scary ride! im not fond of boats tho you see im from the land of 7,000 islands..

this is a cool illo as always.. thanks for sharing this and your experience as well.. good to hear it all ended well..

velvet wrote on May 11, 2008 - 11:34 pm CEST

Un saluto, caro Max, non ho letto il testo, ma mi piace molto il disegno. Ho voglia di inserire qualcosa di tuo nel mine blog! E’ anche ora!!!
Saludos, e ti auguro buone vacanze! Soon very soon!
Augh!!

vanna wrote on May 12, 2008 - 11:47 am CEST

Shocking! :-)

willie wrote on May 23, 2008 - 2:22 pm CEST

what an experience! this is a great illustration

isay wrote on June 14, 2008 - 6:44 pm CEST

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