Sunday, September 17, 2006

Pavones

Move over, mushrooms - I have a new pet hate. Rocky beaches. It hurts to walk on, and therefore to get into the water, it hurts to fall onto, it injures your board (don´t I know it), cuts your feet (while the saltwater won´t let you heal), and looks horrible. Where are you, Mr Erosion? When will you rear your much appreciated, rather dull head? I´ve decided that from now on, if it´s not sandy i´m not interested. I really am a surfer through and through.

Pavones is an amazing surf spot - if you know how to surf. Like Dominical, there was a huge swell whilst we were there, causing waves in excess of 2 metres. These I tried to surf, but the few times I caught one (sometimes competing with 20 other surfers, with room for only one lucky contender), I could not turn quick enough to get to the side of the wave (if you dont get to the side then the wave breaks after a few metres onto the aforementioned rocks, whilst if you do you have a potential 3 minute surf off one wave. My back hurts).