Windsurfing:
One of the nice things to do when one lives near water like the Rio Uruguay, is Windsurfing and that's one of my favorite occupations.
Coming to Uruguay by airplane with a windsurf-equipment is punished by the high prices for the equipment; aircompagnies don't like sports equipments and I've had a lot of trubble  to take a windsurfboard with me. So I have tried to buy a board and sails in Uruguay, but there are no shops. After some searching, I found a shop for watersport, who has left some equipment is the basement, dating from a period, that they tried to sell them. The newest board they sold was already 5 years old (but new) what is Europa nothing worth anymore, but here still lots of value, so the price was high. Also mast and wishbone from oldfashioned types were sold for far to expensive for me, but I wanted to windsurf, so I did have to buy it.
The board (a Tiga free 125) had only 125 liters, my weight with the sail leaves 30 liters over to float. Normally enough, but the Rio Uruguay is a river quite difficult for windsurfing. With the heavy equipement (mast, sail and wishbone) a waterstart is quite difficult. Also the waves are really irregular, due to the irregular deapth of the river, so they don't help to lift up the sail. So a lot of times I did found myself standing on my board in these irregular waves, trying to pull out my sail, because I was too exhausted by trying to get out the sail out of the water.
A few years later I did find my way in Uruguay and I discovered a "shop" in the backyeard form somebody and I could buy some real good stuff.
With my better (and lighter) equipment I´ve already made quite nice rides and every year happens with new experiences.