Ex-president Barack Obama has been spotted enjoying life after 8 years of US presidency by trying out Kitesurfing on a luxury Caribbean island owned by British business mogul, Richard Branson.
The former US leader and his wife Michelle Obama visited Moskito Island, in the British Virgin Islands, after handing over the presidency to his successor Donald Trump.
Maybe Barack Obama is trying some new sports that he could not attempt for safety reasons while serving as president of the United States.
Branson wrote, “Being the former president of America, there was lots of security around, but Barack was able to really relax and get into it,”
Obama and his wife, Michelle, were spotted last week in the British Virgin Islands, and people posted photos of them on social media. Branson owns 120-acre (48-hectare) Moskito Island, which is part of the archipelago.
According to Branson, Obama studied the pastime for two days and flew a kite from the beach, “as if going back to being a child again,” before heading out into the waves.
Branson was trying to learn a similar sport, foilboarding, which uses a modified board that rises a few feet above the water. He wrote that he challenged the ex-president over which of them would succeed first.
Obama triumphed, he said, by kiteboarding for 100 meters (328 feet).
“After all he has done for the world, I couldn’t begrudge him his well-deserved win,” Branson wrote.
