OK folks, we made it to Chile. our flight arrived early and we ended up waiting in the airport for 4 hours, until finally realizing that our driver forgot us. It was about 6am at this point so we hailed a cab who tried to put our board coffins in the trunk. Eventually we got them strapped to the roof on top of the floormats from his car, but whenever we went more than about 15 MPH they would flap making a loud thwapping sound. We ended up getting lost and finally found our way to the hostel at around 7 am and went to sleep (the first real sleep in 48 hours) only to be awakend at 9:00 to hit the road.
We made it to Pichilemu and found waves. It is sort of a big dissorganized swell though so hard to get the good ones. The jump from the rock was gnarly the first time, big 10 foot top to bottom slamming a dry kelp covered shelf. You have to time it just right. We made it off without much incident (Genji jumped a little early and started paddling, but the shelf drained as he was still on it and he basically went off a waterfall staright into a cauldron of whitewater) I ran for my jump after seeing that and about pissing my suit.
We got a few good ones and got worked over by a few. There are very few surfers here.
It is pretty here, a lot like california in fall. Sunny, cold nights, warm days, lots of stars. So far good food. Will post more when we find better connection and keyboard that is normal, although that may not happen. We are now headed back out tp the point to check the new swell, and if it is no good we will drive south towards iquique and conception tomorrow in search of waves.
Kevin
Good, fellows, the guide did arrive....so 7 of 7
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...and the journey continues...
Hahahah the guide arrived late Juane! 4 of 7. *note to others - for some reason our guide insists we rate everything on a scale of 1 to 7. If we rate anything less than 7 he is disgusted. So far our best surf was a 6. :)
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