so pleased for gabi, ecuador world junior surf comp.

If you have read this blog for a while you will know that I am involved with surf and surfing. today I spent one of the most stressful 20 mins for a while watching the scores coming through from the world junior surfing championships. gabi rowe a surfer local to me (SE Cornwall) and the daughter of friends of mine is competing in the girls under 18 in the surf in ecuador. sitting amongst her friends and her mum we waited for her first round heat to finish. great news for gabi was that she made in through the first round for team GB.

ecuador >> hammocks & balsa surf boards

while wonder where to hang my ecuadorian hammock. brought back from south america my carol last month. I happened to be looking at things hammock online and fond a really good site selling balsa surfboards as well as hammocks (sounds like my kind of dream). rather than take it from me have a look at balsasurfers, some good stuff.

napo river >>

if you have read this blog in the last weeks you will know that my wife carol and youngest son ben have been in ecuador, south america in the last month. the reason for the visit was to be at carol's brothers wedding. having had a wonderful trip they are now back home in cornwall,
they managed a jungle trek staying for a few days in the rain forrest within the amazon basin. carol took many pictures this is just one of sunset on the napo river. while away carol took around 1000 photos some of which are fantastic so be sure a few more will find there way here. as will a good look at a genuine montecristi (panama) hat she got me while in manabi province.

this is where I wasn't >> today

I spoke to carol and ben last night they are still in ecuador and seem to be having a good time. they were at the coast at montanita a very famous surfing beach on the pacific. I searched a bit on you tube to find a clip of surf there and found this. the waves weren't this big for them but I think they managed to have some fun. along with alan and the newly-weds.

jimmy & gabys wedding >> ecuador

I had to write a post about jimmy and gaby's wedding in ecuador this past weekend. carol and ben where there. unfortunately I wasn't able to go. but I send all my best wishes from here to them.

ecuador >>

I was pleased to get a call from carol today. (my youngest son) ben and carol travelled to banos, today after a few days in quito and a trip to the ecuadorian jungle. they seem excited and happy to going to jimmy and gaby's wedding tomorrow (saturday). even though I will be here in cornwall I sent my best wishes to the happy couple.

image: courtesy google earth

off for a few days

I am off to birmingham airport on friday morning taking carol and ben to catch a plane to amsterdam then their connection on to ecuador for their exciting adventure in to the jungle as well as the reason for the trip jimmy & gaby's wedding. sorry I can't make it to the wedding with them but hope you all have a great time over there. I will hopefully be able to add some ecuadorian stuff about it here sometime soon.

once they are safely off, its down to sussex for a couple of days seeing family before returning home to cornwall so a fair bit of driving for me in the next days. I should (all being well) be back updating sometime next week.