Seeing as my surfboard is limping on only one side fin I’ve not been surfing. Which is kind of ok… it’s at least given me the excuse to shoot some surf photography.

So I got up early in the hope of catching the Australian pro’s blowing up in the olas (waves). Disappointingly they weren’t out, but I still got some nice shots of waves that went both riden and unriden. I did the same again in the afternoon and got some good ones of Ashley surfing aswell as some other guys. Still no sign of the Aussie contingent. Where did they go? I hope they’re in town still. I so want to get a photo of Taj Burrows taming escondido.

In preperation for the upcoming Special Assembly Day on saturday we arranged with the brothers to help out with the clean up of the assembly site.

… a massive site and is well suited in this climate …

The facility we used is called the “Salon los Mangalis” (very roughly translated in to The Mango Hall), is located right in the middle of down town Puerto Escondido, so it’s nice and convenient for most of the brothers to attend. Its a massive site and is well suited in this climate, the hall has no sides on it so thats a plus for the cross flow of air.

The site doesn’t seem to get alot of use and hence it was littered everywhere with with mushy Mangoes and Mango tree leaves. So we spent the majority of the morning raking the dust clean and free of leaves. There are about 1000-1500 brothers expected to attend the gathering. Seating was also one of the jobs for us to do for this morning. So we jumped in a truck and went to a storage facility where the chairs were stored, 500 of them. We loaded/unloaded these and set them out in an orderly fasion, being careful not to create to much leg room for added brotherly warmth. More chairs were to arrive in the afternoon, adding 800 more to the total seating capacity.

… us marvins were starving …

The work had mostly finished by 1pm at least untill the extra chairs arrived. So we walked through down town Puerto Escondido toward the Playa Principal area. Us marvins were starving and so we stopped by a little cafe that we had eaten at before, run by some German folk. Being a beautiful but really hot summers day it was all to easy to keep sat in that cafe drinking fresca’s (Soft drinks) playing a few rounds of checkers and chess. It’s a cool (figuratively and literally) little place that comes highly recommended by the LPG and us aswell.

By the time we got home our energies were zapped so we did us the locals do and had a siesta till half past five in the afternoon. Before the siesta, I stopped by a surf shop to enquire about some RedX surfboard fins, they didn’t have any fins but shop owner directed me to a house in the neighbourhood, the funny thing was I knew exactly where the house was that the surf shop owner was describing because I had only just been there the day before witnessing!