Pretty low-key kind of birthday really - usual thing, morning spent doing some onland exercises, wave riding, upwind slogging, including the martial arts-style kick around the top of the wave. Lunch, then Cribby took a 90l board out to the big break on the island, did some stuff which impressed the locals, then waved us on. Very light wind really hard work, no waterstarting, trying to catch waves. I struggled to do this for ages, getting on them but not seeming to get very far. Stopped for a bit to have a rest, then Cribby called us over to the beach for tips - sheet in more, turn along the top of the wave. If only he'd said that earlier, because I got going on one immediately, even starting to look up and down the wave, trying to bottom turn and get off the top before falling off! Nice. A good birthday treat. Lots of ideas for improvement :-)
Great dinner, salmon cooked in soy sauce. Repaired to the bar, everyone else seemed to disappear... then Kevin the boss suggested we go into the food room, and bingo! Everyone there, a cake, song - a proper birthday!! Spent the rest of the evening drinking margaritas, playing spoof for the opportunity to wear the pink knickers all day (!) and talking bollocks before retiring far too pissed - woke up about 4.30 and was even drunker than I'd been when I went to bed!
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