So...
Me and Tu Laki are still getting along and we've added a third to the crew...
Hugh Wiley... a young Aussie crewing and surfing his way around the world... a much better surfer than Tu and I combined... usually the best in the water at any given break.
We surfed small Pavones and Cabo Matopalo before heading N to a calm night in Drake Bay. We all the the GRIP-E (FLU) but probably not the swine variety... after a few early evenings we attempted the controversial "drown it in booze" cure and are footloose and fancy free once again.
There in Drake Bay I awoke in a cloud of acrid rubbery smoke... a small electrical fire almost took down the boat... and fried both the iPods... thank God I was on the boat (the others were dreamily pursuing some Tica barkeeps... yeah right)... the gas supply is kinda close to the batteries and it all could have gone BOOM.
I haven't told Tu Laki about his iPod yet... he's going to be devastated... his first iPod got gangked... the second a victim of some sort of power surge during the fire.
We're now in Dominical, super laid back surf town with a mean beach break... tomorrow morning (if the boat's still where I left it) we're sailing north to Quepos to get legally checked in again... still currently in Columbia according to the passport... hopefully this doesn't fuck us... I'm expecting the boat will be thoroughly searched by the Tico Coast Guardo.
From Quepos its a mere 30 miles to Bahia Herradura where I'm looking forward to annoying and teasing billionaires at the hideous Los Suenos Marina/Development/Manifestation of Evil...
... and quite the little reminder of my halfhearted dabble with selling out at a similarly named bad joke in the Cove of the Dead...
Hey PUTITO, I surf better than you already...
The rest of you please pardon a momentary ego-trip.
Despite the Suenos folks Herradura offers a great anchorage a mere two miles from waves at Playa Escondida, four miles from Little Fiji, and six miles from Playa Hermosa... we will be staying there for a while... perhaps long enough to make a bit of money chartering folks to boat only waves.
... and quite the little reminder of my halfhearted dabble with selling out at a similarly named bad joke in the Cove of the Dead...
Hey PUTITO, I surf better than you already...
The rest of you please pardon a momentary ego-trip.
Despite the Suenos folks Herradura offers a great anchorage a mere two miles from waves at Playa Escondida, four miles from Little Fiji, and six miles from Playa Hermosa... we will be staying there for a while... perhaps long enough to make a bit of money chartering folks to boat only waves.
The waves are slated to get scarily massive on Thursday... approaching 8 foot swell... today it's 4.5 feet and I'm still half drowned from the morning session so it should be exciting.
As long as the boat and I stay primarily above the water and off the bottom things can only get better in the near future.
And I knock on wood for the fifth time today...
HASTA EL TOPE! TO THE TOP!... as in fill er' up again... or today's lyric of the day from none other than Ancient King...
"IF YOU KNEW WHAT LIFE IS WORTH YOU'D LIVE IT UP."
So...
MAX
As long as the boat and I stay primarily above the water and off the bottom things can only get better in the near future.
And I knock on wood for the fifth time today...
HASTA EL TOPE! TO THE TOP!... as in fill er' up again... or today's lyric of the day from none other than Ancient King...
"IF YOU KNEW WHAT LIFE IS WORTH YOU'D LIVE IT UP."
So...
MAX