Hi all, sorry for the lack of news but the laptop broke last week which makes blogging a little tricky. We have resorted to writing the blog in the internet cafe which is at present about 45 degrees, smells of sewage and we are surrounded by people watching suspect video footage. It has been an eventful few days, the generator broke then was fixed by Jack and a team of locals, only to cause a power surge which, since the Morrocans pulled apart our surge protector to try to get it working again, we had no protection against surges. Subsequently we managed to fry the laptop transformer box. Fortunately we have been pointed in the right direction for a replacement and are hopeful we can get everything fixed.
As far as windsurfing goes it has been an unsuccessful couple of days…the tides have meant that the freestyle spot is not working at the moment.
On Friday myself and Ricky arrived back at the beach late in the evening due to the slow slog back, Ricky had also managed to put a large hole in the bottom of his foot during a impressive catapult on the sandbar!
On Sunday we tried a wave spot down the road. Whilst unpacking the car Tom’s board decided to blow across the car park, making a nice new hole to join the others! Jack and Ricky bobbed out, both coming in again after ten minutes due to a complete lack of wind, Ricky’s fin having also been a victim of a large rock beneath the water line. Since then we have had no wind and have slowly been driven crazy by our flapping marquee!
Windguru is predicting a good week but we have learnt from experience that any prediction made by them is completely worthless so fingers crossed for tomorrow. In preparation for the especially windy day tomorrow we have brought some camel for tonight – our first bit of real meat since the trip began.
More soon!
Contributed by: Tom
Tags: Dakhla