in Peniche

We're in Peniche Portugal now. This is the site for the 2009 Surf Kayaking World Championships. Pretty cool town so far. lots of beach breaks here, but sadly no swell.

We are in portugal now

Well we crossed over into Portugal yesterday. One thing weve noticed is that the shops seem to be open a lot longer than they were in spain. The swell isntas big as we hoped, yesterday was dismal but today is looking better. got some good video of the boys in some fun waves this morning. ill probably paddle tonight. hope all is well back home

jHo

On our way through spain....

Heres a Halloween shot for you....scary
Happy late Halloween everyone. We've spent the last few days traveling through the top part of spain. We left Bakio on Halloween day, and headed west. We stopped in Bilbao first to try to get some internet, but apparently they havent ever heard of the internet there.....even though it is a big city. We ended up in a nice little town called Sucrese, and set up camp in their port area. We walked around and ran into some Trick or Treaters who seemed very interested in the weird looking foreigners. They surrounded me, laughing and trying to speak to me in their best english. They demanded money so I gave them some american coins and they said thank you and headed off for more Halloween adventuring. Halloween is my favorite holiday back home, so it was cool to have a little halloween cheer so far away. It also proved to me that kids are gonna be kids no matter where they live or what their culture.....pretty cool.

Sucrese
So we surfed on thursday morning at the Sucrese break. We ran into a local kayaker named Kino, and he tried his best to tell us about a break called Gerra, down the road a ways. I managed to get a nice session in at Sucrese. It was a weird break, and you had to take off really deep in the broken section, but if you stayed with the wave it picked up steepness on the inside and walled up. The Fusion 7 7 simply flies....I'm really enjoying learning the boat. It loves to bang off the pocket on a cutback and it takes off late with no issues.

We packed up and headed through the beautiful northen spainish countryside, winding up through the mountains and down into a valley with a huge beach nestled between rock cliffs and rolling cow fields.....Gerra...the break that Kino was telling us about. Nathan was torn between gaining some ground (we have to be in portugal soon) and stopping for a short surf session. I told him that the reason we're on this trip is to surf, and he happilly agreed and headed out at the break. He got a good hour and a half session on some steep little waves and had a good time while Marc and I shot video and stills.

Gerra

Gerra
Last night we were starving and desperate to find a "super mercado" so we headed to the large city of Gijon. What we didnt realize is that it was All Saints Day and thus, everything was closed. To top it off, we couldent even find a super market at all! Where do these people get their food? It is a mystery to us.

We left the city and headed to Luanco. There we set camp, used some of the free food that some kind US East folks gave us back in Bakio and cooked up a meal and pakced it in for the night. Today we hope to make it to the "corner" of spain.

Hello to everyone back home and Happy Birthday Mason Cooke!

Joey