Archive for March, 2009
30
Mar
2009
From BIG to really small
Posted in Cabarete surf camp
27
Mar
2009
BIG and I mean BIG
Posted in 4 metre waves on the reef
As I left the apartment complex this morning and walked the few yards to the beach, i admit to saying the ‘f’ word a few times as I approached the sea. Confronted by 2.5 metre shore break and waves on the reef of up to 5 metres, this is a pretty BIG spectacle and the [...]
26
Mar
2009
Two days of solid rain; it’s not good. We have had crap weather this year so far, that’s for sure, way more rain than normal. In the winter, we get our weather from North America as it travels south. We get their snow storms, but clearly by the time they reach us, it’s [...]
24
Mar
2009
2 year anniversary….
Posted in Cabarete surf camp
23
Mar
2009
Making my Monday…..
Posted in Cabarete surf camp
22
Mar
2009
It may be a strange thing to confess, espcially if you are reading this from a proper ‘day job’ but I have kind of love/hate relationship with weekends. I think it comes from being very spoilt here; with our jobs, for Jim and I, we are on a kind of constant weekend. That’s not to [...]
20
Mar
2009
North, North and more North
Posted in North swells
Hurrah!! The forecasted swell arrived exactly as promised on www.globalsurfers.com and www.windguru.com and it looks very pretty indeed. How can a wave look pretty you wonder? Well, when it rolls strongly and with a shine to it like glass and it holds up and kind of ‘peels’ as it breaks slowly, well to us, [...]
18
Mar
2009
rain……..and singing in it.
Posted in rain and singing
Raining the whole day today; the best day for it for us as we had a list of chores as long as your arm, but I always feel sorry for the tourists on a day like today; leaden skies and drizzle. Still, it’s warm and the rain makes the Dominican Republic the beautiful country that [...]
17
Mar
2009
It’s always lucky when you have good mates, especially when they have a talent and they share it with you. Take our friend Hugo for instance, brilliant and interesting photographer and funny guy. He flits in and out of Cabarete taking shots for magazines and stuff and entertains us when he is here. Cooking and [...]
16
Mar
2009
So one of the things we love to do is to take photographs. Jim yesterday (as the computer genius that he is) put a Picasa plug in to my Blog so that I can with one click now retrieve a photo from our collection. Even though it has nothing to do with Cabarete, I could [...]