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Not so bad
Jul. 9th, 2001 12:15 pmI'm not nearly as sore today as I thought I would be. Unlike Lorra no new bruises have appeared, but then again I don't bruise easily. My back is getting itchy though, I think it is going to peel. My face, on the other hand, is doing alright. The gallons of aloe I put on it yesterday seems to have done the trick. Well, not entirely, my nose will peel, but that's not so bad. I just didn't want my whole face peeling, that looks absurd. The only other noticable injury was my right knee. It got a bit of a twist in one of my aborted attempts at standing later in the day and while it doesn't hurt to walk I noticed it when I was dancing last night.
On the flip side, however, things that have been sore for weeks feel great now. My back, aside from the burn, feels great. Even the ache in my right hand from the mouse is gone. Surfing is good.
On the flip side, however, things that have been sore for weeks feel great now. My back, aside from the burn, feels great. Even the ache in my right hand from the mouse is gone. Surfing is good.
You can take the boy out of the island...
Jul. 8th, 2001 12:07 pm...but you can't take the island out of the boy!
So Lorra and I went surfing yesterday. Forget about taking the skinheads bowling, let's take the goths surfing! Here we are in front of Live To Surf where we rented our sticks and I got a wetsuit as well (I sold my gear eleven years ago when I theoretically was moving to Toronto). I was totally surprised when we pulled in and there was a huge building just for the rental gear - last time I was at this place the owner ran the place out of her house and all the boards and suits were piled up in what should have been her living room. This picture was taken about 11 am, seven hours after leaving my apartment.
Last time I was in Tofino was about six years ago with Dianna. I forgot how much I like the place. Tofino is a wee little town north of Long Beach. The winter population is about 1000 people. I can't believe Lorra and I made it there and back inside one day. I got up at 3:30 am to get my shit together and get out. Seven hours later we renting our boards and were on the water just after 11 am. We surfed for about two hours out first set. It's true what they say: surfing is not like riding a bicycle. I sucked. But after swallowing some seawater and missing about a zillion waves I finally started catching a few and managed to get on my feet once.
Then we decided to take a break. I seriously need the Pepsi I had in the car to deal with the mouth full of salt water I ate 
and we both needed to give our arms a rest. Let me say at this point that old cars rule. Any lingering indecision I had about keeping the Wonder Wagon has evaporated. I'm going to keep it. We climbed up onto the roof and sprawled out. You can't do that on some plastic-fantastic new car. Hooray for Hamilton steel. Lorra even fell asleep on the roof of the car for a while an drooled on my roof!
While we were lounging on the car the people parked in the car next to us came to have some lunch. They were pretty cool. They were a couple of raver types from Halifax that had recently moved to Vancouver.
We went out for another set after out break and I got on my feet a couple more times. Then it started getting really hard to catch anything, even though the waves were getting bigger, because my arms had turned into rubber. What felt like five minutes turned out be another hour and a half. We took a short break on the beach and played in the sand. I dug a big hole in the sand and we just generally sat there being goofs and not giving a rats ass at all.
We went out for one last set. The infamous one more. This is always the point were I have hurt myself in the past. You're tired and not too with it and you do dumb stuff. Fortunately I wasn't so dumb. I twisted my knee a bit and got 40 gallons of water up my nose, but nothing really bad
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We went back to the car to get changed and got to talking with the Halifax people (Andrea and Sanchez) for a while more. Lorra thought Sanchez was cute and I liked Andrea so we all ended up trading numbers before heading out
. Maybe I'll invite Andrea out to Organix next Friday.
Lorra just about lost it laughing when I came back from the change room in my pointy 'Vogs and pseudo-vinyl Lip Service shirt with my board under my arm and had to get a picture. You should have seen it when I had my own board - of course it was black.
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| Long Beach, British Columbia, Canada. |
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| Atratus on the Wonder Wagon. Here I am sporting the ever stylish wet-suit tan: burnt face, pasty white chest. |
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| Hand+Forehead+Staple applies even when surfing |
and we both needed to give our arms a rest. Let me say at this point that old cars rule. Any lingering indecision I had about keeping the Wonder Wagon has evaporated. I'm going to keep it. We climbed up onto the roof and sprawled out. You can't do that on some plastic-fantastic new car. Hooray for Hamilton steel. Lorra even fell asleep on the roof of the car for a while an drooled on my roof!While we were lounging on the car the people parked in the car next to us came to have some lunch. They were pretty cool. They were a couple of raver types from Halifax that had recently moved to Vancouver.
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| Lorra and the Wonder Wagon |
We went out for one last set. The infamous one more. This is always the point were I have hurt myself in the past. You're tired and not too with it and you do dumb stuff. Fortunately I wasn't so dumb. I twisted my knee a bit and got 40 gallons of water up my nose, but nothing really bad
.We went back to the car to get changed and got to talking with the Halifax people (Andrea and Sanchez) for a while more. Lorra thought Sanchez was cute and I liked Andrea so we all ended up trading numbers before heading out
. Maybe I'll invite Andrea out to Organix next Friday. Lorra just about lost it laughing when I came back from the change room in my pointy 'Vogs and pseudo-vinyl Lip Service shirt with my board under my arm and had to get a picture. You should have seen it when I had my own board - of course it was black.
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First time surfing in 11 years. This should be interesting!
Off to bed I go. This will be a dawn patrol... I'll be getting up at 3:30, leaving at 4:00, getting Lorra at 4:30, catching the 5:15 ferry from Tsawassen to Duke Point, we should make it to Live to Surf in Tofino by 10am, and on the water by 10:30!
Off to bed I go. This will be a dawn patrol... I'll be getting up at 3:30, leaving at 4:00, getting Lorra at 4:30, catching the 5:15 ferry from Tsawassen to Duke Point, we should make it to Live to Surf in Tofino by 10am, and on the water by 10:30!
At Lorra's Request
May. 28th, 2001 10:39 pm |
| Me surfing, early spring 1989. |
This picture has been in my wallet forever, thus the discolouration. I'm the one riding the soup into the beach - that arm sticking up in the air was sort of a signature thing. I never realized I was doing it when I was out there, but I always did it. You can see how big the waves are further out if you look closely at the specs to the right of me. Those are my friends Jessica and Matt. The waves weren't huge that day, about a metre and a half - give or take, because it was nearly spring and the big winter waves had already gone away. In the winter, November through January, this spot would often get four metres or more.
And while I was spelunking...
May. 28th, 2001 10:20 pmHere are a couple for Lorra:
My old surf club's logo from 1988 (135 Kb)
One of my old surf drawings from the same year (200 Kb)
My old surf club's logo from 1988 (135 Kb)
One of my old surf drawings from the same year (200 Kb)
