Mmm, porridge!! Apparently it's the Breakfast of Champions, but I don't think that's the James Hunt definition. Anyway, tastes good, lasts a long time, and easy to make for 4. Papaya helps too :-)
Didn't seem too busy as we hit the hut about 10, but it was busying up pretty quickly as we selected kit - people were going slightly bigger on the board, staying with 5.3, except for Juan who got a 5.7 to go with his 100l. I took the SuperGu and a 5.3 again. Why not? Lots of reasons, but hey, it's a holiday. Gen took the still and video cameras and headed out to the point to get some pictures, all we had to do was head into the point and try not to get stuck on the wrong side of a breaker…
This morning was fun! Taking it easy, relaxing on the way out, feeling good, gybes coming off reasonably frequently, catching the big swells and taking it as far as my nerve allowed, which isn't really very far - the rocks are awfully close and come up pretty fast. The point was crowded too, at one point I was coming in on a wave, the one ahead lifted to reveal a guy in the water in my path, with a kite surfer coming the other way and at least two other windsurfers at various angles to negotiate with as well. Scarey. The most painful moment was catapulting when turning sharply downwind to avoid a German guy (assume he's German anyway) with whom there'd been a misunderstanding about who was on what take etc - hit my left arm really hard on the boom, ouch, had to wait in the water for a moment to get my fingers to work again properly.
Eventually got tired after nearly two hours, came back to find Roger already on the beach, had a josh with Josh about having to go out cos it's windy and wavy and holiday so doesn't matter how tired people are, then came back and helped to cook an excellent pasta lunch with real tomato sauce with green peppers and ham. Oh, and a £2 bottle of wind that was really nice. Yum. Proper holiday, proper holiday food!
The afternoon was a bit quieter - same kit, lighter wind, so easier to handle but harder to plane. Headed upwind practising light wind unwinding (!), did some tacks, maybe a 66% hit rate which was very gratifying. Caught some waves, but stayed away from the hollow-tipped bullets on the point, because my timing just isn't good enough to be sure I could avoid the rocks if I got caught on the inside. Duncan took pictures, as did Rog, some of Josh doing some incredible stuff on what were not really very big waves, he just works it so well. Did the best part of an hour, and then felt tired so came in. The strap-to-strap gybes are cool, tried one duck but it didn't come off, need to do some more. Lots more things I need to do too, but feels like I'm getting better (again!).
Evening all but Duncan went to the resto in the square, lovely fish, grouper, boiled potatoes which make a change, and some lentil rice. Oh yeah, and the pre-loading on home-made caipirinhas before we went out!! Dunc fell asleep...
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