Not a lot has happened this week.The weather has been unseasonally bad ,lots of rain ,the whole region has had record falls sinc mid may.The beaches between St Jean de Luz and Anglet were closed this week due to high bacteria levels.The rivers have all floodedand washed all sorts of debris,including full trees and toxins from the farmland and industry out into the ocean.The ocean is a muddy brown colour.Not very inviting.
I only surfed once this week.5-6ft onshore waves at Hossegor at the nudie beach.It was really rippy and i was the only one out.A few rip unwary travellers floated through the line up,but they dont really understand the rips and quickly got washed down to the left with the other guys.I felt like i was back at Gunnamatta with the rip running like a river.I had plenty of good waves and the swell had pulsed unexpectedly so most of the locals missed out.That happens here as the swell can rise quite rapidly with conditions ever changing.You need to look regularly as it can pulse with the tide and double in size in a couple of hours,even catching the forecasters unaware.
We're still waiting for the guy to come and empty the septic tank and he assures us that he will come tuesday(promises,promises) .Ineed him to empty the tank before i can do any more work on the house, as i want to drop the end wall right where the tank is.
Corinne and Lola havent been very well this week with Co needing a day off and antibiotics for a nasty throat infection.She probably should have taken the week off,but is snowed under at work right now.They are much better now but it still lingers a little.
Fathers day here today,but the weather is crappy so we're not sure what to do

Had good waves today at Labenne with Rob.The only ones out on the whole beach.5-6 ft solid peaks breaking only about 30 metres from the waters edge.WE didnt get a lot but what we had were pretty good.Great to have some solid waves.Its gonna be bigger tomorrowand I will probably finnish my work at his place an we'll have a surf at hossegor late morning or after lunch

The demolition has begun;i want to get the walls down this week,but it will be slow as i want to salvage the hand made bricks,really rough terracotta bricks which are very thin ,around 25-30 mm.I should have enough for the end wall,great feature.So i'll have to be gentle so as not to damage any,which should be slow but the mortar is a lime mix so its not very strong and falls off easily.
Could be good waves this week!
Too much rain ,I'm over the rain!
Shame we cant send our rain to Vicco coz i've had enough and you sure need it
Iwent to spain to fill up my car and it cost me $aus155.00.It would have been another 20 odd dollars if i'd bought it here.Its exy here when we have to drive 2 cars and are bothdriving 30-40 mins to get to work.Cant wait to move closer.We'll save a lot of time and money