View from the back of the van

View from the back of the van, originally uploaded by m_hagen.

This is when the trip took on another whole dimension. Surfing an overhead, offshore pointbreak alone is getting to be a rarer and rarer event these days. I kept looking around waiting for everyone to show up. Luckily as I got out a few guys from Edinburgh visiting for the weekend showed up so I didn't have to keep pinching myself to see if this was really happening. The Orkney Islands are an amazing place. To surf in front of village remains that are more than 5,000 years old alone was an incredible experience. The waves fired down the point. Smoking offshore plumes off the backs of waves. The twinnie was a speed demon. Dark water, yet crystal clear. The next day I surfed the right till the 8 foot clean-up sets drove me in...