Tales From The Shack

About a week ago I traded an ice cream cone to ride this guy's Segway. These things are tough and awkward. I thought you couldn't fall off, but that's not the case. After fearing for my life I gave it another shot and finally got the hang of it.

I put in these big ice cream cones at Big Wave's (fitting I think). Today a girl ran up and wanted an ice cream. Her parents said, "no." She stomped, pouted and threw a tantrum. Her parents were dragging her away as she was balling her eyes out and screaming at the top of her lungs. Her father said, "Thanks Big Wave." I mean come on buy your girl a cone already.

These are my comrades Ivan and Sergei who run the Crepe Factory.

As I was closing tonight, an older woman was snapping shot of my place. She said she likes to takes cool photos and interesting places. She's gonna e-mail 'em to me and I'll post them as soon as I receive them.

Peace!

Finally

Finally the weather broke and Big Wave had some action. It was only 66 degrees, but it felt like 80. I think, actually I know, that people were sick of being cooped up inside and were itchin' to get out and about. I had one girl who told me she's been waiting all winter for a Fro-Ho-Cho. How cool is that? Another girl told me the Fro-Ho-Cho was mad good. I liked that 'cause it reminded me of when I called Fred mad crazy.

It's Official

Big Wave made his first sale of the year.  Ice Cream of course. That's my bread and butter. It's a nasty Memorial Day Weekend. Weather is in the high 40's low 50 and rain, rain, rain. Did better than I thought I would considering the weather and lack of people so that's a plus.

Native American Blessing

Vijay performed the second annual ceremonial blessing for Big Wave's. I asked him to play "many trinkets," but he told me that is not the nature of the blessing. I have to agree. However, I do hope for many trinkets this year.

Hey Yo Big Wave

People have been asking, "Hey, Yo, Big Wave what's up? How come there haven't been any surfing blogs?"
Well it's that time of year again and Big Wave has been getting his shack ready for another season. I open up next Friday the 24th. Weather not looking good right now, but let's hope for a hot booming summer!!!

Dump Permit Required?

I'm not sure if Ogunquit requires a permit or not. Every time I popped-up I got dumped hard. I was sitting real close to the black tees and they were big boy waves today. Too big or too powerful for me. Once going right I got smacked by the lip and just got held down. On my last attempt going left, I'm up and I think the same thing happened. I went flying ahead of my board and my teeth smacked real hard.  Thankfully no damage. I got worked over and over again. Today was the first time I covered up and protected myself with every spill (thanks to the safety advice from Mike in Hawaii). When changing these two locals kept giving me looks. I think the first time I also experienced mild localism.

PS--taking off my wetsuit I opened up my skateboard wound. I think today's session was a worse beating than the skateboard wipeout. I was seeing stars the whole way home.

Soft Shoulders & Shore Pound

You had to be right in the pocket today 'cause the shoulders were way soft--super soft. If you weren't right at the peak there was no ride. Even when there was, I dunno, it was pretty shaky. As soon as the wave would approach, I would look ahead and see a big shallow trough ahead of me. Pretty Scary--so I was very apprehensive. So much for the attack mode today. It was survival mode. Even coming in I got tossed hard  by the shore break and held under (the longest I've ever been down--round and round). Looking nice and clean out there though and should be dope this afternoon.