Deciembre El Norte's

The North winds have picked up during the last couple days. We've had nice overhead waves coming in and I'm starting to get a lot more comfortable surfing. I've been teaching lessons everyday and doing lots of physical training to keep up on my strength. Taylor and I built a "Ninja-gym" and started the official Los barriles Bolympic marathon.

 

Light winds & Fiesta

It's been light winds for the past couple days and was nice to take a break and start building up "Club Shed". We took a trip south of Los Barriles, down to El Rincon and found perfect south winds in the mid 20's and amazing blue water.

             Spent some time during the light wind days to build up mi Casa. I originally used
all bamboo for framing and as soon as we layed the palm fronds over the roof the rain clouds
came in and it rained all night! The next morning I come to find the roof had collapsed and
it was back to square one. Needless to say the bamboo was not strong enough for framework so
I found a few steel re-bar pieces and it worked much better. So now the Casa is near its final
stage of completion.

 

        Went spear fishing for my first time and I can't belive how many tropical fish there are!, The sea of cortez is bustling full of life. I've never experienced swimming with tens of thousands of fish all around me. I swam next to a sea turtle and even swam over the top of a full size morey eel that looked like a pissed off pitbull. I didnt get to see any sharks but there are plenty of small reef sharks around.

Over the last weekend was Independence day in mexico.In Los Barriless they closed down part of the main street and had all sorts of street vendors from Mariachi bands, Food and Bars, Gambling and Games and a few "knick Knack" toy booths. Last thing we did was go to see the cock fights and I gotta say I have mixed feeling about watching animals fight to the death for gambling purposes. It will probably be the first and last time I watch cock fighting.
 

Next week the forecast looks solid so it's back to kiteboarding every day!

Ciao,
Matty

Good Winds With Good Friends

Sunrise over California

Had a nice flight down with an amazing view of the sunrise and the local mountains. Got lost in LAX and finally found my terminal and loaded the plane for the last leg of the trip.

Mt.Shasta

OOh man!, Feels so good to be down here in the sunshine, good winds and warm water! I'm getting settled in and meeting a lot of great people. The kiting has been amazing and what the locals call gusty, I call B.S. hahaha!

First Sunrise In Los Barilles

Looking back into town from the Beach

ExotiKite Kiteschool

Second day here and I'm already teaching my first kite lesson! Wow what a great setup the ExotiKite school has here on the beach. Teaching is a breeze compared to the Gorge. Perfect side-onshore winds, Radio helmets, and huge amounts of space for the students make it a dream.

Check out EXOTIKITE kiteboarding school

Taylor gettin his "Danglepasses" dailed

Nice hand drag Tay Tay

Local Rabbit Slayer Steve the Pastry Chef

Steve draggin out past the surfChillin with friends Its Baja Midnight!, Full moon is amazing and bright Well it's gettin late and i gotta rest up for the next few days, Peace out!

-Matty

Baja Bound

Greetings Rabbits and Rabb-ettes!

less than 36 hours until my flight into Baja, Mexico. During this adventure i'll be chillin Los barillies, hopping around with great friends and teaching kiting for Meg & Ian at Exotikite kite school in los barillies.

My bags are packed and i'm ready to commence operation baja bunny or bust!

See ya on the water!

-Matty