Cabarete Blog

Daily life in the Caribbean surf town of Cabarete

Archive for July, 2009

Not sure what to expect this winter in terms of surfing conditions and the reason why is that weather patterns in the D.R. and in fact, all over the globe have been very strange this year. An unusually wet spring has been followed by a summer of quite good wind and some fairly decent swells [...]

Another good SUP session for Jim this morning with Sven – they are both hooked on SUP’s. Tomorrow the swell looks set to getter bigger again so probably they will take up their shortboards and head for Encuentro – what great choices we have here. The summer is producing some very good surfing conditions, so [...]

A brief lie-in this morning was followed by the 2nd session with Trigger Point therapy specialist Maria LaTravese. I floated between periods of intense discomfort and sheer joy at the fact that she has found the root of my 2 year old back problem – trying to breathe hard through the intense parts. I walked [...]

My day began with tea in bed brought by Jimmy (always a nice start). He had been to Encuentro to surf with Sven at 6am. On his return, he reported the best ever session there – overhead waves peeling nicely and some long rides on one of the South Point Fish boards we have bought [...]

Our ladies T’s arrived. I asked our friends if they wanted a free one? What do they look like? they asked……. Two lovely volunteers in the photo below show us; Have a great weekend (and thanks to Sven for being such a sport) oh, and Dill the King Maltese (aka Little F..k.r) Disclaimer; no dogs [...]

16
Jul
2009

Home sweet home

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I must say sorry for not updating the trip/shopping progress for the new surf camp…..that is if you were looking forward to the reports I promised. The reality is that I did not take my log-in details with me (extremely stupid) and could not do it! We arrived home this afternoon following 17 days away [...]