Last night I was quite tired and didn’t feel too motivated to make the long drive to the beach. Although classes don’t start until next week, I was tired after spending all day making handouts for the first week of classes. The weather report predicted overcast weather and a 30% chance of rain and on top of that, the wave forecast didn’t look so promising. To make a long story short, here are some pictures: (I think you will figure out what I did today)
That’s right. I went to Tatadohama. Went by local roads - left at around 3:30 am and was in the water just after 6 am.
How was the surf?
If you look closely, you can see a big grin on my face!
Was the water cold? You betcha! I estimate that about half of the people out there this morning were wearing boots. I stayed in the water for around 2 hours and that was enough for me - for some reason, I seem to lose a lot of body heat through the top of my head.
Was the beach crowded? At 6 am, there were 10 or so surfers in the water. This is what it looked like just before 9 am. (Just for the record, Kazumi took the two pictures of me, and the picture below was stolen from this website.
You’re braver than me. Just so you know, everyone loses heat through their head, even people with a lot of hair. Thought you’d know that being a frost-bitten Canadian boy.
Cheers!