BOOF RAT!
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Cabo Trip Winding Down
The waves are small, so I thought I'd write more. Mark leaves today and is coming to our hotel later with all his photos, so that will definitely be the highlight of the day and I'll have a few up as soon as I can. The good ones will probably go to Rhythm though. The past few days we've been waking up at 5 am, its been nearly impossible to get Luke out of bed, but it has always been worth it as it gets windy here by 9 or 10 every morning. Our morning routine has consisted of cereal and yogurt, lots of coffee for me, throwing the boards in the car, and driving about 30 minutes in the dark on a dirt road. I tend to drive a little more conservatively while Luke enjoys pretending he's in a rally car race and I'm his copilot. Being the copilot usually involves me saying things like "Really?? how did you not see that rock!?" and "Wow, you're on the complete wrong side of the road guy.."
When we finally reach our destination, we are greeted with glassy seas and head high rippable rights. We've been scoring a super fun head high mini right point off a rock boil to ourselves every morning. Luke managed to snap both of his brand new supers, which he said were the best boards he's every had, and it looked that way in his surfing.
We surfed everyday all day when there was swell, but the swell died and last night we decided it was time to go out. Luckily for us Mark had met some guys from Sanuk and they had invited him to a house party. Luke said he knew the owner, Jeff Kelly, super well so we knew we were in for a good night. When we showed up at the house with our little crew consisting of Mark, his girlfriend Megan, Morgan, Jenny, myself, and Luke, we were greeted by a bunch of super psyched old guys. The house was absolutely insane. One of the nicest houses I've ever been in in the middle of the mexican desert. We proceeded to drink beers and listen to old guys tell amazing stories. Jeff Kelly, the owner of Sanuk turned out to be one of the funniest coolest guy ever and had some epic stories. They offered us tequila that was and probably will be the best tequila I will ever drink and things got a little weird. Wingnut thought he was the funniest guy in the world with all his cute little comebacks, but me and Luke just looked at each other and wondered why he was such a boof rat.
All in all it's been an amazing trip and I can't wait to go to Mazatlan tomorrow, heard there's another swell on the way.
Dane
When we finally reach our destination, we are greeted with glassy seas and head high rippable rights. We've been scoring a super fun head high mini right point off a rock boil to ourselves every morning. Luke managed to snap both of his brand new supers, which he said were the best boards he's every had, and it looked that way in his surfing.
We surfed everyday all day when there was swell, but the swell died and last night we decided it was time to go out. Luckily for us Mark had met some guys from Sanuk and they had invited him to a house party. Luke said he knew the owner, Jeff Kelly, super well so we knew we were in for a good night. When we showed up at the house with our little crew consisting of Mark, his girlfriend Megan, Morgan, Jenny, myself, and Luke, we were greeted by a bunch of super psyched old guys. The house was absolutely insane. One of the nicest houses I've ever been in in the middle of the mexican desert. We proceeded to drink beers and listen to old guys tell amazing stories. Jeff Kelly, the owner of Sanuk turned out to be one of the funniest coolest guy ever and had some epic stories. They offered us tequila that was and probably will be the best tequila I will ever drink and things got a little weird. Wingnut thought he was the funniest guy in the world with all his cute little comebacks, but me and Luke just looked at each other and wondered why he was such a boof rat.
All in all it's been an amazing trip and I can't wait to go to Mazatlan tomorrow, heard there's another swell on the way.
Dane
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Surfline Photo
http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/west-coast-south-swell-photos_56008/
Got photo #5, thanks Mark!
Got photo #5, thanks Mark!
Thursday, May 19, 2011
1st Real Day in Cabo
Wow. It's only our first full day day in Cabo and we have already managed to get the rental car very stuck in sand for 3 hours, score sick waves, and even buckle a brand new board.
I'm here with my friend Luke Rife and we met up with photographer Mark Mcinnis today on the East Cape. We scored super fun Shipwrecks with only 4 guys out for about two hours an hour ago... Sooo fun! Luke was doing the craziest full rotation airs ever as I tried to get used to my new Super, it's gonna work amazing.
It hasn't been all cake and muffins though...while trying to find East Cape Road, me made a horrible wrong turn down a sandy road, got stuck once, then made an even worse turn down another sand slope onto a hard packed area right on the beach. We drove in what we thought was the right direction, but that ended up being a dead end with two Mexican guards peering at us as if they had never seen anyone driving on that area of land... we turned around and went the only way we could to get out, which was on the beach. I told Luke to get out and check the sand to make sure it was hard packed enough to make it, which he said it was, so he climbed back in our frontwheel drive rental car and we went for it. We didn't get far, at all, and in no time we were really really stuck. We dug and dug, but we needed help. Luckily some shady Mexicans who worked at a hotel down the way saw us on the struggle and came over to help. We dug even more and after about 2 hours of sweating with our new friends, we were ready to push. Frederico drove expertly in the sand and kept the car moving while Luke and I got a full noodle leg workout pushing the car. We made it, paid our stingy new friends the demanded 40 dollars, got out to the East Cape and scored sick waves.
We're gonna go surf again,
Photos and Video coming eventually
Dane
I'm here with my friend Luke Rife and we met up with photographer Mark Mcinnis today on the East Cape. We scored super fun Shipwrecks with only 4 guys out for about two hours an hour ago... Sooo fun! Luke was doing the craziest full rotation airs ever as I tried to get used to my new Super, it's gonna work amazing.
It hasn't been all cake and muffins though...while trying to find East Cape Road, me made a horrible wrong turn down a sandy road, got stuck once, then made an even worse turn down another sand slope onto a hard packed area right on the beach. We drove in what we thought was the right direction, but that ended up being a dead end with two Mexican guards peering at us as if they had never seen anyone driving on that area of land... we turned around and went the only way we could to get out, which was on the beach. I told Luke to get out and check the sand to make sure it was hard packed enough to make it, which he said it was, so he climbed back in our frontwheel drive rental car and we went for it. We didn't get far, at all, and in no time we were really really stuck. We dug and dug, but we needed help. Luckily some shady Mexicans who worked at a hotel down the way saw us on the struggle and came over to help. We dug even more and after about 2 hours of sweating with our new friends, we were ready to push. Frederico drove expertly in the sand and kept the car moving while Luke and I got a full noodle leg workout pushing the car. We made it, paid our stingy new friends the demanded 40 dollars, got out to the East Cape and scored sick waves.
We're gonna go surf again,
Photos and Video coming eventually
Dane
Monday, May 16, 2011
Almost Summer
This past week has been filled with small waves, sunshine, beer, and Bagel. Upon returning to San Clemente, we were greeted with a local NW windswell mixed with inconsistent SW groundswell. Luke Rife came up for the week and we made the most of the conditions on offer, even sneaking in a fun day at Lowers.
Bagel(Jonny's dog for those not in the know) has been on fire and if she keeps it up she just might get her own edit... This young female boxer is athletic, energetic, and beautiful, everything you could want in lady. It's pretty much impossible not to smile whenever I see her mile long tongue dangling out of her mouth as she comes to greet me after a fun surf session. Thanks for being amazing Bagel.
Our weekend nights have consisted of fun parties at extravagant houses with pools. Fun times. On Wednesday its off to Cabo for Luke and I to shoot photos with Marc Mcinnis. Hopefully we score!
Happy almost Summer,
Dane
Bagel(Jonny's dog for those not in the know) has been on fire and if she keeps it up she just might get her own edit... This young female boxer is athletic, energetic, and beautiful, everything you could want in lady. It's pretty much impossible not to smile whenever I see her mile long tongue dangling out of her mouth as she comes to greet me after a fun surf session. Thanks for being amazing Bagel.
Our weekend nights have consisted of fun parties at extravagant houses with pools. Fun times. On Wednesday its off to Cabo for Luke and I to shoot photos with Marc Mcinnis. Hopefully we score!
Happy almost Summer,
Dane
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