Small But Fun (some surf pictures of Jialeshuei)

  Summer's coming and that means that the winter swell season is over for Jialeshuei.  There's still surf though just small.  When I first arrived here, the beach was always choppy with ugly currents, but the waves were nicely shaped and the size was decent on most days.  Even when the waves were completely blown out, there were waves that could be caught here and there so Chris and I surfed pretty much everyday the last five months that we've been here.  A lot of times we surf twice a day.
   Now that summer's coming that means the swells are getting smaller and smaller.  The beach that I've become familiar with sometimes looks unrecognizable because it's so flat and calm. Even though the waves are small, the good thing is that there's a lot more offshore days like today.
  
   This morning I woke up, clambered up to the third floor to look at the break and knew that it was going to be small.  It was smaller still so I decided to take out a soft top board from the hostel (soft tops are the long foam boards that are great for beginners).  I haven't been on a longer board than my 5'8" fish in quite a while but it was good fun! Amazingly, the whole two hours I was out, I was the only one surfing today...
I can finally post some pictures because Chris decided to take a break since he surfed most of the day yesterday.  He was kind enough to walk down to the beach and take some photos.

Home- the village of Jialasheui... not sure if it's big enough to be called a village.

Too small for a shortboard

That's one of the village dogs, Moka.  That's me in the water, by myself 

There was one other guy on the beach besides Chris 

All in all, it was just another day...