Saturday, April 24, 2010

Exciting news is that we have done something controversial and bought ourselves a kite! Its a 10metre and so we will use it when there is not enough wind for our 5.3/5.0's. Will be good to learn and also helpful on days off when there's just not quite enough wind for windsurfing as we like.
Photos will follow :)

Sunday, April 18, 2010




It was pretty windy or the start of the week and then we got a lucky day of rest before some more win came through.
We have a very strange situation here where we have guests stuck out here who cannot fly home because of the ash cloud over europe, as well as many who were supposed to arrive and are unable to get here. People are no longer here by choice, need and want to go home to families and work, and although it's been windy and so they are happy enough its a strange thing when everyone is normally here on holiday loving it.
Last night the staff had a trip to Sharm for some good food, which was lovely, and as always makes us feel very happy to come back to El Tur away from the lights, noise and mass tourism of Sharm. Today is a light one forecast, but hopefully it will pick up enough for me to have a kite lesson, I would really like to get up and riding again this year as it would open many lightwind doors for me and Phil.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Windy windy windy





We have just had another very windy day here, putting me on a 3.7 and the guests on 4.7's and 5.3's. I have been busy taking photo's for various people, including the Ant Baker Wave Clinic. They all seemed to enjoy themselves a lot at the wave beach, getting some awesome air time and good riding too. Action in the bay was also going on, but the best pics are from the wavebeach. Tomorrow's forecast is bringing more wind and so a good week looks to be had by all :)

Thursday, April 8, 2010





Its been super windy again, putting me on my 3.3 a lot. We have been getting a good amount of water time in as well as working, luckily the workshop has needed a lot less attention this week :) Phew!! I have been taking shots for the guests as well as some staff, and luckily Phil took a few shots of me when we did a watershoot too which was cool. (During this shoot you see the moment i nearly got slid into by one of our guests learning to vulcan at the camera!) The last few days have been really exciting as i have finally landed a few new moves, well Spock 540 so a variation on the Spocks (i have been trying to get these for too long as they are supposed to be easier!!) and also got my first couple of real Flakas...sweet! Very happy! I am also working hard on switch and so really excited about the progress. Bring on more wind...although a couple of days rest would be nice too right now ;)

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Fish eye fun!!



Yesterday bought some surprise light winds, enough to get me going on a 5.3, so i took out one of the centres new 5.3 Gators (stealthy black of course) and had half an hour play, with Phil as my personal camera man. This of course means I was the only one he was there to photograph, but as always when you get a camera out its like a magnet and everyone is drawn in, which was a little annoying, even the Russians from Ibi and Friends suddenly decided they could sail upwind and came over to get in the way and make horrible board chop!! The wind died pretty rapidly, but we still got some funny shots, and I also got a Spock 540 woohoo!! Finally! I got all the way round upright, perfect, smooth, and then slow motion managed to mess up the foot change and fall in! D'oh! Getting there, and 5.3 is the biggest sail I've freestyled on since we left here in November, having been spoiled by Cape Town and also March's windy days this winter. I'm happy with that!

Thursday, April 1, 2010




We have got a small break from the wind for two or three days, chance to catch up on repairs and other jobs. We also have the fun task of getting our visas today, always interesting, a place full of tourists yet nobody seems to speak English! Later on we will also be practising our volleyball skills, something we enjoy when the lack of wind allows.
We have a 12 people from Portsmouth Uni here this week, so we're also having fun with the students, a BBQ was cooked earlier in the week which was a big success, tonight we will do dinner and tour of the town and then tomorrow its will be a bonfire and duty free clean up for them before they fly home on Saturday.