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Playing with small waves

Alex complains about feeling rusty now again but I think he's doing fine being a person who only surfs once or twice a year. Can't wait to find some bigger waves though so he gets the proper exercise he's been waiting for. Pacific on the mind of course but we're also thinking of dropping by Barbados one of these days, it's just a 100 m sail away. If they'd also have a surf school there for me that'd be even better as I def need a more patient/calm teacher than what I've dealt with thus far, and someone I don't have to fight about the same board with :/

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saturday surf

Swell was not as big as expected but Alex still got a few sweet waves. As for myself, I'm hoping to get a new lesson as soon as possible. The adrenaline that is pumping while trying to catch those waves is incredible, although I think I'll spare the images of my attempts for now lol. Because this is the element and situation in which we both are feeling utterly happy, a day out surfing is clearly one of the best moments we share together. Just need to get myself my own, more suitable sized board asap so Alex can relax and not having to worry for me possibly breaking his precious, fourteen year old surfboard that's been traveling with him all across the world.

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following the storm

A good swell is building from tropical storm Ernesto that is roaming in the background on this photo, a couple hundred miles South of St Martin. Looks like this weekend could be a good time to get surfing finally. 

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checking waves

Alex anxious to get surfing. Grande Anse, Les Saintes.

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Mullet Bay

last pic is from Maho Beach. Bikini from Babajaan
Alex got a couple of smaller waves from the swell of hurricane Katia on Saturday afternoon on Mullet bay and there was that other bay which was even better with some nice barrels (no pics from there unfortunately due to the late hour in which we finally found the place). Apparently there was even better surf on the NE on Sunday which we unfortunately missed out on. Shall check the place out next time there's a good swell coming.

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Surf in Lanzarote

I have always known how important surfing was to Alex for about 15 years ago or so. When he was a surf teacher in Biarritz on the French Atlantic coast and when he was traveling the world from Mexico to South Africa to Angola and Bali, Portugal and the coasts of Morocco in search for the best waves, but I had never seen it myself as yet - and as it was such a distant image for me. As I never seen it IRL, I had also hard to picture him as the surfer he obviously once was - even though I've seen some old photos of it. He's been mumbling about getting that board in the water once we get to warmer waters like the Pacific or such, while I at the same time have felt his worries for being a bit too old and rusty, and with time I have also somehow thought that yeah, he probably is a bit too old and rusty to get it going on the big rolls. But so today I finally got to see him working that board for real for the first time in my life and while sitting some hundred meters away, prepared with my tele-objective, I could slowly start to realize the deep importance the surfing have had on him - and obviously still does in a nostalgic, deep way and I felt such strength of seeing him excellently maneuvering the board after such long time. Obviously a lot more stiff than I can imagine him in his 20's, but still he had the flow. 

For some odd reason I even started to cry for fucks sake, when I saw him taking off on a two meters left. Two meters (6,5 foot) is really nothing when it comes to serious surfing but it did made me proud to see my handsome man making some action after such long time. Is that the second you know that you never loved anyone higher - when you're almost 30 and you begin to cry when watching the love of your life doing something he really loves from the bottom of his heart or is that just a sign of that human beings (me) gets more pathetic with age? Seriously. Either way I had an amazing time watching the show and Alex was obviously really happy to have found himself some good waves again. Can't wait to learn this sport myself and I'm glad I have the perfect teacher for it.

Also I definitely need to get a good waterproof camera/video cam so that I can shoot better pics and videos of Alex surfing on our tour around the world.

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