CV 24/25 day 4

ENE 12 kts and flat 🫤. Went up to Little Hookipa anyway and guess what! A thigh high clean left is breaking on the left reef at high tide 🙏🏼. Impossible to resist but ankle to knee shallow on the inside which means soft top conditions 🤪.

I must have stepped on a slippery rock coming out of the water cus suddenly my left hip feels completely out of order. Function is a like a poor 2 on scale to 10. Can hardly walk the few steps to the car 😢.

We seek comfort at Secret Love Beach, hidden at the foot of Mt. Leao. All alone on this secluded pearl almost anything can happen 🤫.

Now we are sitting at Angulo sipping on a "nuclear" Mojito. Good medicin for my bad hip and after all, it's new years eve.

Cv 24/25 day2

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Karin started the day at Angulo on 5.0 and then we went to PP for some lunch.

Secret almost the same as yesterday. That spot really picks up any little swell out there. Slightly bigger waves today but less wind and really shifty. 

Just me and Victor Fernandez e-42 (world champion) on the water. Victor on 5.3 /95L and me on 5.0/82L. Tried to watch and learn as much as possible while sharing smiles on the waves. This guy nows his trade, nailing Takas at the same rate I was nailing tacks 🫡.

Cape Verde 24/25 Day 1

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Back again on the Island where the summer never ends. Car picked up at Caetano at 9AM and then heading north to check the swell. Flat at Mt.Leao but some nice lines forming at Secret/Little Hookipa. Nice to see Victor and his gf and son also this year. Went out on 5.0 and 82L. Wind on and off but some nice but small waves. Also met up with Ola H and his wife and the swiss couple. 

Cv 24/25 day 3

 Little Hookipa surfing day. As the wind has shifted more to the east, Little Hookipa turned out to be super clean with waist to chest high sets coming through. Windy as always though, cross off, so claen but not glassy.

Karin was not too keen to challange the rocky launch at first but neveetheless ended up catching the first wave.

As always we tended to sit a bit too far out but in the end I scored a decent left and had some nice turns on a clean waist high face. 

Just the two of us on line up 🙏🏼 apart from three men spear hunting on the outside.

Sandwich lunch on the deserted beach at the north end of Murdeira bay with a baby osprey sailing above our heads.

Quick coffee stop at Kite Beach and then some book reading at Angulo before sunset.🌅