…the third generation of Papersurfer blogging has started. I have a feeling that this one won’t be quite so prolific as the others for a while but the first post is up and is making a statement. Creative input on header design was 100% and content was ruthlessly edited by the boy in charge. Welcome [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2007
The Swiss Mumblers…
September 29, 2007 – 9:39 am
A late night jam at the bar last week started with some blues nonsense with a couple of guitars and a harmonica. As the repertoire thinned the booze was poured and the songbook came out… At first the lovely Sonja (Swiss obviously) took us beautifully through some Ray Lamontagne and a Beatle number or two, [...]
Home again, home again…
September 28, 2007 – 6:11 pm
Well the fun had to stop some time. You can’t surf perfect waves, sleep at random times, eat delicious food, drink large fruity cocktails and generally be irresponsible and childish for ever…. I gave it a bleedin’ good try though. So – Dylan is busy giggling at Basil Brush and I’m making a vague attempt [...]
I’m sure I had a board…
September 26, 2007 – 4:38 pm
(unknown looking surprised at Supertubos) Supertubos is a feisty wave even when it’s a few feet high. I sat on the beach and watched a few people getting spanked this morning and got a few nice pics too. I’ve surfed Supertubos a few times and had my best barrel ever just up the beach towards [...]
Candy store…
September 25, 2007 – 2:57 pm
If the surf is blown out everywhere and the only break working has several gazillion numpties crashing into each other all over it then… …go window shopping! I didn’t surf today.
Almagreira at first light…
September 23, 2007 – 1:32 pm
…I cycled up to the cliffs at Almagreira at the crack of doom to check the waves and take a few photos as the sun came up. I’ve stuck a few more at flickr (as usual)… I surfed today. Snuck a few lefts from the pack in the bay as the first of the new [...]
The best laid plans of mice and surfers…
September 22, 2007 – 8:08 am
The plan made in the bar last night was ‘get up the crack of dawn and catch the tide at Praiainha and surf some waves’. Simple. So as I was climbing into my slightly damp wetsuit first thing this morning I was wondering where the bleedin’ eck everybody else had got to… I paddled out [...]
Waves, waves and more waves…
September 20, 2007 – 3:55 pm
Well my life has become a constant cycle of eating, sleeping and surfing. Almost perfect… I can think of a couple of additions that could improve the scenario but you can’t have everything (and this is generally a smut free zone). (The campervan full of Kiwi surf chicks that I ordered several years ago has [...]