Who said summer means flatness and poor conditions? This is being one of the most consistent summers in a long time. Shame that the armpit of the Atlantic Ocean is not receiving the goods compared to other nearby coastlines within the Bay… and that when it does the crowds are unbearable. But such is the curse that has been laid upon us and the thought of my three weeks in Indo in September / October keeps me alive in these hard times. Yesterday I went for the early one with my good friend Joao, from Porto, who is visiting the area on holiday. We got to the town beach at 6h45 and there were already more than ten people in the water… on a Monday. He couldn’t believe it. Me, I just try to avoid any thoughts of mass murder and focus all my frustration into catching as many waves as possible before the crowd reaches the 25 people mark (which it normally does before 7h30).
Anyway, here is the crop from the last days:
Last
Tuesday saw the arrival of a new swell up in
Lacanau (
Surf-report)
The swell picked up on
Wednesday both up in
Quiberon (
Kreff)…
…
Pantín (
Esnifa Salitre) and everywhere else in between.
We still had some waves left on
Thursday in
Rodiles, Mundaka’s twin sister (
Cezonillo)…
…and on
Friday in
Galiza (
Fiz_Bertels), before the usual weekend lull.
And on
Monday (yesterday) a new swell made his presence felt in
Galiza (
Dani)…
That same swell hit us
today as seen in el
Mongol, a reef / pointbreak in downtown
Gijón (
Cezonillo) while we got the onshores here at
home…
In case you are wondering, yes, you are very few. This blog sees less than 15 visitors per day on average …and that is fine with me. My other blog is where I concentrate my efforts, and with this one I only pretend to have a place where I can store & show the photos of the best waves of our coastline as seen by some other bloggers. I could save these photos in a folder, but I like the idea of having a blog in English as opposed as to my other blogs. Having said that, I admit that I can’t help but include here a few words regarding stuff I read about in the surf media… and it was one of these remarks that got me an e-mail from a North American photographer last night. This up and coming photographer told me I had made a mistake by saying that he had written –in an American magazine- that the crew he travelled with had been the first ones to surf a certain spot in North Africa. It turns out that I knew this claim to be false and I had pointed out this fact here. My mistake comes from saying that it was the photographer who had said it when it turns out he was not the writer of the feature in the American mag, he was just the lensman. I have already made the necessary amendments and… wouldn’t it be nice if the photographer –who knows very well his crew was not the first one to surf that spot- also asked the same corrections to the magazine that printed the story? After all I’m sure that if some European crew claimed to be the first to surf –for example -Vancouver Island or somewhere in Baja the entire European surfer community would probably have to endure another boring attack from Lewis Samuels… or some other writer from the same lame-journalism school. One wonders…
Over & out.
