Monday to Sunday – forgettable

Last night I couldn’t help but post the new cartoon strip before going to bed, but I didn’t have the strength to write and edit the rest of the weekly review of what’s been happening in the armpit of the Gulf of Biscay. It is now Sunday afternoon, and while I’m waiting for the tide to drop and go down to the beach for a surf crappy surf, it is a good moment to write about (and edit) this past week’s action in my neck of the woods.

We are having waves; not great waves, not perfect conditions… but we are having waves pretty much every day and when you think that July is traditionally the flattest month of the year around here (along with May and June) we cannot complain. I didn’t manage to surf every day and I missed the best session of the week (Wednesday at dawn, with off-shores and before the swell died) but on the other hand I managed to take my bicycle (with board) down to the beach a couple of afternoons (it is totally impossible to park near the beach in summer after work) and enjoy a nice after work ride – surf – ride work out combo. And when you know how steep the hill on which top I happen to live is, rest assured that the second ride (back home) of the combo is an exhausting one.

But strangely, with all the waves there’s been on the coast I haven’t really found much photographic evidence in the usual blogs. Still, on Tuesday I spent the day in Capbreton again, and while I didn’t surf, I managed to take a photo of what was happening in front of the hotel where we are having our sales meeting:

Further west, in Salinas, there was a nice and hollow shore break breaking in front of Clau’s lenses:

As I said earlier on, the session of the week was Wednesday’s early one. I missed it and had to see it unfold from the pc screen…

Everybody (me included) knew it and hoped that they would still be some waves left for the after work surf. But it was not to be: it was very small and extremely crowded, as seen here in Sopelana by Surf30:

And there was another pulse in the swell by Thursday, especially in Galiza (by Fiz_Bertels)…

…and Salinas (Clau again).

On a different note, the guys from Alaplaya, the best Spanish surf portal, have launched a new edition of their on-line magazine: Gure North Shore Mag. In this issue they are focusing on Mirata, one of the spots along Zarautz’s beach front, and which happens to be enjoying some very finely shaped sandbanks this late spring – early summer. Enjoy the photos here.

The Thursday pulse died on Friday, and we were being left with small weak on-shore wind swells for the weekend. And the forecast doesn’t look too good for this coming week. Maybe a little pulse on Friday and that’s about it. I’ll spend most of the week in Capbreton for the sales meeting, so provided there is something left I hope I’ll have a few surfs in between meetings or early in the day. I will update this blog next weekend, while struggling to finish my new article for 3sesenta and in between surfs (hope). Until then…

Over & out.