Hey Bo---it might be good that you live in the desert
From this morning's briefing----yes---in the NYT
The biggest wave
Some of the tallest waves on earth are in Nazaré, a Portuguese fishing port. A scientific team has determined that in February Maya Gabeira, a 33-year-old Brazilian, rode a 73.5 feet wave in February, the biggest wave surfed in the 2019-20 winter season. That’s a first for a female surfer.
Seven years ago, Gabeira almost died wiping out on a 50-foot wave, and her long recovery involved three back surgeries.
That would be a rush---as long as you made it
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
Just that picture of running in front of that wave, brings on a considerable pucker factor for me
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
Scuba didn't work for me either---I could not get my ears to clear so any depth at all and I was in pain.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
Scuba was my favorite recreation along with skiing, when I was younger. I miss both.
I never could get the hang of boarding, but the waves in the Gulf where I tried it were probably too piddling to catch a ride.
Btw, that Porteguese site has many films and videos taken there by its famous lighthouse. I believe the world record wave ever ridden there is on film and was thought to be about 125' high.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
And to the question of "why are the waves so big at Nazare?" The answer of which has been gnawing at me for two days and I finally gave in.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
Scuba was my favorite recreation along with skiing, when I was younger. I miss both.
I never could get the hang of boarding, but the waves in the Gulf where I tried it were probably too piddling to catch a ride.
Btw, that Porteguese site has many films and videos taken there by its famous lighthouse. I believe the world record wave ever ridden there is on film and was thought to be about 125' high.
I loved Scuba diving, and the highlight of that was diving on the USS Oriskany 20 miles off the coast of Pensacola. Unfortunately, since my bypass, my Cardiologist says no more.
"Illegal Immigrant" is not a race....
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~John Adams
I was not much of a surfer I preferred bodysurfing off Zuma Beach in Malibu. At 15 I got my NAUI Diver Card. I missed a lot of high school classes going diving. I ended up as a NAUI Assistant Instructor. I have over 5000 dives under my belt. The Channel Islands off Southern Calif are my favorites followed by 3 beach dive spots off Northern Malibu. Excellent Spearfishing for Calico Bass, Hailbut and California Sheepshead (they go up to 40 pounds). Photo: after a morning of Diving South Rock 3 miles offshore from the Santa Cruz Harbor. Top of the granite reef is in 70' of water and the bottom is at 120' you have a maximum bottom time of 20 minutes tons of ledges and caves. unfortunately it is also known great white shark habitat. Very spooky place to dive.
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