Last night we had a few new arrivals here. One, is the national champion for womens’ surfing, and the other is number 4.  They are a sight for sore eyes. Sorry, no pics. If you were here you could see for yourself.

They are friends of the family, which we all seem to be part of, and everyone seems to be a friend to, and spent the night so they could go out surfing today.

Accompanied by the film crew (a guy named Vampiro with a waterproof cam-corder), they hit the point here, Playa Palmar.

I went down to the end of the beach and just watched these girls in action.  They don’t mess around. I have seen lots of guys surfing along the way, and these two put them all to shame. Except for the guys from here who went with them… It seems everybody here has been surfing since rocks were new. Just trying to follow the lingo here can be a challenge.

I had the pleasure of watching one of the videos that Vampiro put together yesterday. This guy is good, and the video looks like what you would expect to see on TSN or something like that. He says he just puts them together to offer to producing/advertising companies to use for footage in commercials or backgrounds in ads. IMHO, I think he is selling himself short and should be making surfing movies.

The number and character of people that seem to gather on a daily basis sets me back in my chair a bit. A tattoo artist from the states who did the tats on Robert DeNiro for Cape Fear (who happens to be on the 5th page of the tattoo mag I was just flipping through…and his wife is on the front cover (no shit)), a real-estate developer putting in a subdivision up in the hills, surfers from Hawaii down on vacation, older folks from just down the lane who bought here in ’71, etc… Everybody is welcome. I think you would just have to be here to understand the feel of the place.

The girls from Sweden are heading off to the city tomorrow to party for the weekend, and are in the middle of getting a lecture about what to do, what NOT to do, and how to be safe about all of it. I’m sure they have heard it all before, but they seem to be bearing it ok.

What a cast of characters…