Yes that’s me paddling out on my own on the 31st January.  Friday night there was a big storm in Seville but checking the wind guru website for the waves in Canos de Meca I saw there was a window to get a good two hour surf  on the Saturday morning early before the next storm came through.

Got up at six thirty, loaded the boards and my wetsuit into the car and left the bat cave straight into the first rain storm of the morning wondering if I had done the right thing. Seville to Canos de Meca is an hour and a half it was windy and raining all the way and the forecast didn’t seem to be very reliable as I was expecting clement weather.  I arrived at the Faro in the middle of a wind storm but suddenly saw a break in the weather see picture.

There was no one around it was eight o’clock in the morning , Wonkey was sleeping off his gin and tonics in his van so I got changed and paddled out on my 6′1 Allstar.  I surfed alone for an hour before Wonkey surfaced, I was told that lots of people had been checking the surf but weren’t going in as it looked a bit rough the sets were about 6 feet it was a lot better than it looked.