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| (June 22nd - 25th) Currently sailing (up-lake to Port Dover) to meet with and join the Lake Erie Interlake Cruise 2019… |
| Wednesday, June 19th Calm conditions prevailed. Race cancelled… |
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| Friday, June 14th Long Beach - Good wind all day… |
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| Lions Park Mommy Maggie and Auntie Bethy came here to play as children… |
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| Wednesday, June 12th Racenight - Calm and cancelled… |
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| Wednesday, June 5th Racenight. Damp, overcast, cold, foggy, often bleak, |
| and (for the most part) an abysmal light wind, but who cares, it was such good fun… (scroll down) |
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| June 3rd The lake was cold, blue skies and sunshine prevailed, and Long Beach was windy today… (scroll down) |
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| May 30th Club Race. Generally overcast and a bit chilly. But, there was enough wind to complete two course laps… (scroll down) |
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| Hopefully our August will soon become the first Lego actual full-size sailboard shaper… |
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| May 22nd Sugarloaf Sailing Club. Light wind and a rain-shortened course for our |
| first race of the season… (scroll down) |
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| May 21st Very high water at Lakeside Park, Port Dalhousie, Lake Ontario. |
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| May 25th Firemen's Park… |
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| May 16th Almost getting there… |
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| A pretty good reason to consider buying a lottery ticket… |
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| May 11th Another season begins… |
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| April 26th Challenging SW wind gusting over 40 knots today & a few more pics from the last few days… |
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| The laughing gull had the last word… |
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| Nicely lit on my 5.7 m2 |
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| April 20th More S(SW) wind up to 30 knots… |
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| April 19th Experiencing higher winds, rain, and extreme weather conditions… |
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| April 17th … |
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| April 14th - 15th Good wind for the first two days… |
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| April 14th Pamlico Sound, Rodanthe, NC. Good winds coming this week, wind moving in as we speak… |
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| On our way, first thing in the morning to OBX! Site should report from beautiful Rodanthe NC in a few days… |
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| Oceanside Hatteras… |
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| Avon, NC 2012 |
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| Heating it up a bit… |
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| 🤪 We'll be sailing the Sound in a week! |
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| Only 8 days away… |
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| Only 9 days away… |
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| Only a few short weeks away… |
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| From late January - March, 2019 (Malaga, Spain) - (near Albufiera, and Lisbon, Portugal) - (London, UK) |
| Please go to my FaceBook profile for all of the posted trip pictures & commentary… |
| (iPhone) Sunday Morning Football, London Suburbs… |
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| A last walk along the Thames and Battersea Park. |
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| March 23rd Saw the Musical - WAITRESS, last evening. A perfect, enthusiastic, laughter and tears 10 out 10! |
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| Late March - Staying with family, heading home next week… |
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| On our way to London… |
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| High winds en route caused a lengthy flight delay in Lisbon, British Airways passengers were invited to have a chat with the pilots and get a photo taken in |
| the fight deck, many sincere thanks to our awesome BA flight crew… |
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| Nazare - some images found online… |
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| Nazare, Portugal, and Nazare beach below and photos from the powerful Lighthouse area and near North Beach. |
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| The lighthouse, on the point, sits above the end of Nazare's 230km long underwater canyon. Cold North Atlantic swell surges out of the canyon from a depth of up to 5000m, instantly doubling |
| the wave above it as it displaces a phenomenal body of water. That's why the waves on each side of the point become smaller than those crashing onto and around the point. |
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| Legendary surf spot Nazare - the biggest wave ever surfed, and more… |
| The Nazare Trench… |
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| Tuesday, March 12th Leaving tomorrow for Lisbon for three days and a side trip to Nazare… |
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| One of our favourite restaurants for Happy Hour, fish, and a last sunset… |
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| Hiked to a few more beaches, the Algarve coastline here is stunning… |
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| Having a map and cellphone helps to navigate more efficiently using public roads and pathways… |
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| An arduous hike over challenging terrain ends with a cold beer… |
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| Best time to surf - November through April September and October are recommended for expert surfers. The surf/SUP curious tourist crowd tends to wait for warmer spring/summer water… |
| Hiking west along the Algarve Coast to beautiful, golden Gale Beach (left) & distant Salgados, looking back east (right) to a much more challenging coastline… |
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| Pipeline conditions, these clean, straight, smaller, rolling 5 - 6 foot waves provide near perfect learning conditions all levels of aspiring surfers… |
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| Lessons and rentals open here all year round… |
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| A vigilant, friendly, loyal surf dog, watching out for her master who's enjoying a ride in the waves… |
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| Actual today & average monthly Atlantic Ocean water temperature here in Albufeira, (Algarve, Portugal)… |
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| Surfer down, loving surf dog to the rescue, perfect… |
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| All Boardsports are popular here along the Atlantic coast throughout the year, and up to week long enduro Camps attract motorcyclers from all over the world… |
| BMW F850GS sport bikes and the larger R1250GS are popular off road rental options. |
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| Hiking east along the Algarve Coast toward nearby Albufeira, and more distant Villamoura… |
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| Made all of our connections, settling in, cheers, and wandering about… |
| The Algarve coast is spectacular. |
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| Sadly leaving Maliga Sunday morning for Lisbon, then a trip down the west coast to Albufeira… |
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| Visited The Automobile and Fashion Museum outside Malaga - about 90 classic cars and fashions of the time, a few of our favourites posted below… |
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| Above, that 1911 Renault AX! ↑ Remember the love scene with Jack and Rose aboard the Titanic? |
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| A track ready factory XK120 Jag in a (waxed) flat black finish (just below) and a RHD '39 Lancia Astura Cabriolet (a Pinin Farina custom design classic for Jean Harlow) just above. |
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| A customized 39 Lincoln Zephyr below, likely inspired by Hot Rodder Boyd Coddington… |
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| (below) A classic Porsche 356 Speedster, a Mercedes 300 Gullwing, and an Aston Martin DB5, James Bond's most famous second car. (His first was actually a sky blue Sunbeam Alpine Series 2) |
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| A transverse, mid engine Ferarri V8, SIGH… |
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| February 25th Hiking up and into the Maine Cave - the historic Cueva del Tesoro… |
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| There are only three true marine caves in the world, this is one of them, formed mostly under water by the sea during the Jurassic Period… |
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| February 23rd Along the break wall to the marina, an active and well supervised Opti and Laser class is evident… |
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| At the Contemporary Art Museum in Maliga. A few moments of quiet reflection, see for yourself ↓… |
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| Worth a thought or two… |
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| Continuing to work an iPhone in different/somewhat challenging (iPhone) conditions with some improved results… |
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| (Shooting a large lumbering, open cell, foil kite through a plastic window, backlit & back sidelit exposure conditions, sports action, and celebrating an early, on-going Happy Hour…) |
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| A few pics of the palaces at beautiful, fortified Alhambra, a Muslim and Christian peaceful coexistence for a number of centuries, in Granada… |
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| Plus Ultra signified the edge of the world in the 12th century, one can go no further, |
| (disproved a few centuries later by Columbus who was also granted by Queen Isabella, in this palace, a permission to sail west from here… |
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| (above) Ceiling, double wall, an aqueduct that actually powered working toilets in the12th century… |
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| February 19th Settling in nicely. Wandering about old and new Malaga, and beyond… |
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| Morning Walk (and there is kiteboarding here…) |
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| Happy Hour with live music! |
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| A few wind-related and beach shots wandering around Malaga, Spain… |
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| (This building was originally constructed in the mid 1800s. The plaza or city square (adjacent to these apartments) was built in 1507.) |
| We are staying in the flat two floors above the umbrellas and chairs. |
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| Departed Pearson Int., changed flights in Gatwick UK, and safely arrived in Malaga, cheers & hola! |
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