Stumbling onto Puerto Rican Sports History: I had a mtg in SJU on Saturday. On the way I noticed many giant billboards with a blond tennis player on them. ‘Vamos Por Ti’ they said, ‘were going for you’. On the way home the guys wanted to stop at a bar. The place was full. On the 6 televisions was the gold medal match between Monica Puig and the girl from Germany. Every point Monica lost a hush fell over the bar like you could hear a pin drop. When she started to win everyone went nuts screaming and hollering. The match went back and forth forever. Monica would not give up, at one point down 40 love she came all the way back and won the point. Last set she runs across the court falling down, does the splits and hits the ball from behind back across to the other side, the German knocks the ball back and it lands outside the line and everyone goes bezerk. Monica goes to shake the hand of her opponent and then walking across the court falls down and starts crying. There was barely a dry eye in the whole bar. Just a little known island in the Caribbean finally got a gold medal in the Olympics and we stumbled onto it and an amazing sports moment.

Caribbean Life Blogger: I’ve been here in PR with just Rosey as the rest of my fam has been in St Pete for a couple weeks. I’ve been doing a lot of little projects, catching up on things, working as a handy man. Life is so DIY here. There are a couple cool posters on Instagram that we like to follow here on the island, one is called @backpackingpr. Rosey saw a post and was dying to find where it was. I said “we can go to 1 place, pick it out” A little daddy daughter time. I cant believe she’s 16 already, growing up so fast. Life is so busy here that we don’t sight-see this beautiful island as much as we should so Sunday we took off for where we might find this place she wanted to see. It’s a natural pool/pond in the middle of the cliff where the ocean washes in out. We had heard it was near Mar Chiquita but when we got to Mar Chiquita looking for wonders of nature, what we found was the biggest Puerto Rican Street Party ever. We bumped around and had fun. Then we headed over to another beach 15 minutes away called Poza de Las Mujeras. Another street party. The cops took pitty on our tourist butts and let us pass, there were so many people they closed the road going in. Both of these places are amazingly gorgeous, it’s hot, it’s a holiday(PR Constitution Day) so everyone is at the beach partying. From Poza de Las Mujeras we started hiking the beach back east. After walking a half hour beach then cliffs I’m like ‘Rosey, if it’s not over the next ridge we’re calling it’ we’d been searching all day. She got ahead of me and I then I see here jumping and yelling. She found it I was so happy for her. This little pool is like the ones in Hawaii cut right into the cliff. It looks like God cut a infinity pool right in the side of this rock coast. We took some pics and hung out and unlike Mar Chiquita and Poza de Las Mujeras there was nobody there. We left as the sun was setting, body surfing our way back to Poza. We stayed the night at a friends house in Luquillo then headed for the SE coast on Monday am. It had been 10 years since we did a summer vacay to SE PR in August 2006 so I wanted to go back. Maunabo is about as far from my house in Rincon as you can get on this island. I really like that town, it is clean and well-kept. The beach had not changed a bit, no new condos, everything the way I remembered it. The trades had backed down, more ENE than SE, so the waves were only knee to waist high but breaking just the way I remembered. The beach looks like Costa Rica pure beach break on black sand. We surfed for a bit and headed home. We circumvented the whole island over two days. Here they call it ‘paseando’ you just get in the car and drive to points of interest, sight seeing. Internal tourism. It was a good reminder of why PR is still called La Isla del Encanto. Here are a few pics:

SE PR on Monday:

Hunger: This analogy brought an Epiphany to me. Acutely in focus in her absence. You know if you ate constantly, an obese person always at the buffet you would never feel hungry. But food is awesome, some people live for food. Have you ever ate too much? ugh You dont even want to see food. You can equate this to many things in life that you love. Going without them is like getting really, really hungry and then how do those wings taste with just the right sauce that you like washed down with a cold beer? Ahhhhhh! Life is good. WFL Surfers are constantly hungry for surf. Cory and Shea grew up hungry for surf and that hunger propelled them to places we may not see another WFL surfer get to in our life time. Watching those guys battle it out at Chopes… Even as I live on an island with waves now the hunger does not go away. It never goes away for a WFL surfer. But in a way that’s good because when you finally get to eat it’s so good. When those channel swell lines finally come in you surf all day, sun burned exhausted and feeling so good!

SE Swell. 11 second period headed for Texas.

Tuesday WFL 5/31/2016 7am: On the surface the West Florida forecast looks pretty benign but there are a couple areas to watch. What is the longest fetch you could get into the Gulf of Mexico? Can you imagine if the fetch is coming from the North Coast of Colombia all the way to Texas? Kind of looks like that set up this week. Check out the models above. Gusty 20 to 30 knot winds across the Caribbean from the southeast and the east-southeast pushing swell into the the Yucatan Channel at the end of the period, later this week. All of that swell all that weather piles up against the Yucatan and low pressure forms later this week. Right now the GFS shows that Low pulling Northeast from the Yucatan across Cuba and completely avoiding the southern Gulf of Mexico but this is beyond 120 hours in the forecast and we could definitely see some changes. Hopefully there’s a strong High pressure in the Atlantic, but I can tell you that right now there’s no breeze down here in the Caribbean so nothing to force the issue and push the Low a little farther west into the WFL window. Bonnie came right out of the same kind of area Cuba to the Bahamas so patterns do repeat themselves. We would love to see this thing go gulf side… if not this week in the next few weeks. You know it’s a good sign of things to come during the month of June so check back. Next Forecast: Thursday, possibly sooner.

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