Tuesday, March 30, 2010

EL Tur..super busy, super windy! what size for me today?



So we've been super busy here in Egypt. First we had Cambridge and Oxford University students followed by Jem Hall and his 13 students, plus various other guests from around the world. We now have Portsmouth Uni, a smaller group but still plenty to do. The workshop has been a very visited place these last two weeks, our repairs are getting much quicker and easier thats for sure but we are looking forward to having everything fixed up and no damage for a while...please!!
I have a day off today, so hope to get on the water a lot, the forecast is good. I am still working on consistancy for spocks and trying to make spaka's into Flaka's. The past three weeks have brought so many days seeing me on my 3.3, I am very happy I have it, but hope today for a more gentle 4 metre day. I have not had much time for photos for me and Phil as we have been super busy, so only a couple to show at the moment on this post...soon there will be more though, hopefully get some today.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Back in the desert :)





We have been back in El Tur for one week now. Its great to be back and luckily a not so good forecast has provided two days surprise wind to test out my new 5.0, as well as some super strong southerly wind too providing ramps and swell in the bay, very unusual for this location.
Luckily for me, although I have mostly been behind the lens taking the photos this week, Imanaged to get Dan to get a couple of shots of me back on my 'home' ground. I particularly like it that the guy behind me on the massive slalom kit is not planing and I was on my 4.0m :)
The other pics show the Oceansource team testing our new kit out in the brief minutes we have had to play on the water, things are super busy out here right now, and with 25 students arriving on saturday its only going to get busier.