Archive for August, 2009
Two days of rather frustrating ‘nearly-wind’ but not…… Many of the tourists here do the right thing and bring their 10/11/12 metre kites (or even larger) but Jim and I have 7′s and 9′s and the last couple of days it just wasn’t quite enough to ride. Mid-August/September is storm season; the storms form off [...]
Euan’s nose is almost back to normal – thanks for all the well-wishes. Today we will go back to the Hospital to remove the gauze and stuff that it inside his nose still, despite his best efforts to sneeze it all out! The surf camp doors are on now and today, the container arrives in [...]
Euan’s close call with the sharp edge of a surf board; first waiting for the operation; Then in recovery; He was exceptionally brave (after realizing that the first injection did not produce too much pain). 6 more injections followed at various times through the day and now we have him home again. Congratulations to Centro [...]
Fancy a little bit of this? Encuentro, 21st August 2009
Hurricane season is pretty exciting in the Dominican Republic. The island is perfectly situated for storms to swerve either north or south of us; Passing by right now is Hurricane Bill, Cat 3 and like most storms, well north of us (Cabarete in the north is even more fortunate as storms are ‘bounced away’ by [...]
and the water starts to go into the pool at Swell ;
The pool lights working on the Swell pool. It looks so nice and once filled with water the pool lights will appear as tiny stars on the water, moving as the water moves. Thanks Ian Patry
We recently flew AA from POP to MIA (2 weeks ago) = 22 hour delay leaving POP. Once they fixed the aircraft with a part flown in from Puerto Rico 20 hours after the scheduled departure time, we had to wait almost 2 hours more for the crew to wash off their sun tan cream [...]
This AM in Cabarete; Drew, Jim and I all out on the main reef; the boys SUP’ing and me taking photos with a little waterproof camera. It was Drew’s first ever time and he did really well. Here are the results;
In my last post, my son is holding a small black and white dog in the last photo. The little puppy belonged to Franzie his friend. Today Puchi was run over and killed by a driver entering our apartments too fast. How very sad. Very sweet dog, short happy life.