Surf In Portugal

Finally we are driving along the Atlantic shore of Portugal, last turn & we are parking,

In front of us is a long sandy beach on the North side of Peniche - one of Europe's sacred surf spots.

It is a dream that came true; we are going to surf in Portugal!

For 7 days, Rotem & I drove up and down for different surf spots, for me, after surfing the short nerves waves of Israel it was a big excitement to run on such a long and stip waves, to be able to think & execute my turns and moves and push my self into my limits.

The area is full of board surfers from all over the world and to watch them dance on the waves was a great stimulation for me, I think that I have learned allot just by watching this guys who are surfing the good waves since childhood.

It was a pity not to meet a surf kayak on the water but in a way you do learn a lot from board surfers.

Obviously some of them were very possessive re the surf spot and some could be hostile as well. But on the other hand we met some friendly people in the water who became very supportive and it made me feel very much welcome.

In the end of the day I prefer a smaller & less quality surf with friendly people rather then a great surf with bad energy & the need of fighting to get your run.

I was using my new MEGA REFLEX

kayak, there is not much to say, I simply in love with this kayak.

Rotem was using WATERTECH LUSIFER and she liked it so much that in the end of the trip she ordered one!

Watertech kayaks is owned by Rui Calado who is one of Portugal top ww paddlers & surf kayak. He is a great guy! Extremely friendly and relax. It was too bad we didn't have time to be together on the water this time. I'm sure we'll meet again soon.

I'm happy to say that Terra Santa became an official dealer of Waterteck in Israel.

And now for the bad part of the trip: this are the only pics we have from the trip... we took A nice Nikon slr camera with telelens & a video camera but it was stolen from our bags on the 1st day....

So we must get back there ASAP

Omer