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classic post-session cerveza Love this photo of us walking back from surfing in Mexico. Side note: The dude standing way way in the back on the bluff is the local security guard who makes sure you stay off the “private land”. Ed took some fantastic shots.
Some links for April 10th through April 17th… Tstout.com“Great posters by a great artist.” Fluency Admin at deanjrobinson.com“Custom grey theme for WP Admin 2.5.” Flickr Code“Your one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community” GrabUp – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)“GrabUp is an interesting little app that adds a new wrinkle to… Continue reading Bookmarks for April 10th through April 17th
Diggin’ the artwork of Robert R. Abeyta, Jr. “Working on a larger series… of these paintings, The Tianguis, Mexico City for an upcoming show. I want paintings clear, simple, veiled with complexity. Complex Simplicity is the term I like. More info on the show as things develop.” — Robert R. Abeyta, Jr. Suprememundane
It’s almost winter. NE Surfing season is close to being over for me. I’ll probably try ‘n hit it a couple more times but now I’m starting to consider a way to prolong this season (That started way back in the spring with our 2 weeks in Mexico). Most of our crew has decided to… Continue reading Considering a trip
Finally our new camera. A Canon SD800is. Our last Canon PS A75 did us well – we took well over 15,000 photos with it over a 3 year span. You might have seen a couple of them. That camera survived 2 trips to Mexico, rain storms and plenty of sandy beach action… plus it’s closest… Continue reading Canon SD800
Update: Surfline has a full thread with photos of some of the accused/events – wonder how long that will stay up ? Here’s the PDF print out of the thread just in case they accidently hit the delete button. (thanks Anile) Seems like Surfline/Quiksilver bought off a famous Mexican point break (Barra de la Cruz)… Continue reading Surfline and Quiksilver’s ‘badwill tour’
We watched The Fountain last night. It was recommended to us by Anile and Chris while we were in Mexico. I had seen the trailers and knew a bit about the production process used to create some of the “effects” seen in the film. We liked the movie a lot, but I have to agree… Continue reading The Fountain
With only 5 weeks to go before we’re dipping our toes in the warm pacific ocean; My mind has been turning to surfing and all that entails. Checking the wave cams, checking the surf reports for MEXICO, thinking about the new fish Johan is making me (for this summer), making sure my noodley arms are… Continue reading Cold water, warm water and frozen waves
After snorkeling for the first time last year in Mexico – and really liking to it – I’m looking at buying a set of fins, masks and snorkel. I’ll use it this year in Mexico (o yes – we’re going back – more about that in another post soon) and this coming summer in those… Continue reading Snorkeling
This coming weekend, there will be swell. Swell of some kind, most probably HUGE rough wind swell. I’m tempted to drive down and check it out but have some other obligations that must be completed. Plus I don’t know how well I’d fair in 50° water and and 40° air temps. I’d like to see… Continue reading Cold water and 06
Town info http://www.mikedoyle.ca/photos/mexico/sayulita.shtml Sayulita is on Mountain Time and PV is Central, and your air tickets are PV time, so leave an extra hour when returning to the airport. Sayulita has no bank nor cash machine, yet is almost entirely a cash economy, so get pesos from the cash machines in the airport, or from… Continue reading Sayulita Research
Last Sunday was the first time I’ve been able to surf at Hampton Beach, NH without a wetsuit. After a spring of wearing my awesome Excel 4/3, this was truly a new experience. The reports said the water was 67° F +. Amazing for this high north and this time of year. I was in… Continue reading Surfing without a wetsuit
We ran into these in Mexico, actually only Steph did and she got ZAPPED…. “On the Reports page, for the last 2 week I have been mentioning that the Bermuda High as been “higher than normal latitude wise” pushing in a consistant SE windswell-swell, with locally southerly winds. Plus there has been a few fronts/disturbances… Continue reading Man O Wars in NE
I forced myself to paint one water color per day while on vacation in Mexico. The results were at times frustrating and more often than not – the best stuff came with quick and accidental effort. I ended up with 25 watercolors in all – a couple I gave away – the best ones I… Continue reading Watercolors
It occurred to me walking out for lunch today, into Montreal’s current sweltering heat wave… — TWN says it’s currently 28° C and feels like 35° C with the humidity — … that it still isn’t even close to as hot as Mexico was. The sun had so much more power there. Being my first… Continue reading Heat