HOMEWARD BOUND
10.40pm: After dropping off the hire car, where we were fined 20 euro for having fuel a fraction off full, we make it to check in just in time before it closes. All went smooth with the gear and without a second to spare, we head to departures and straight to the gates.
11.15pm: Last on the plane, we score the front row (more expensive) seats for free, as nobody has claimed them and managed to clock up two hours kip before landing in Bristol at 1.30am GMT.
2am: Back in the van in Bristol Airport we hit the road again bound for Southampton in the midst of the night. I just make the 4.15am car ferry, and am back on the island at 5.15am and inside my front door an hour later, not bad all things considered.
TIMO MULLEN
“Without a doubt this had to be one of the craziest last minute ideas I’ve ever had, and sure enough JC was the only guy I knew stupid enough to join me! It may have been a crazy idea but in my books a calculated one. I have flown to Tarifa on similar forecasts in the past and unbeknown to me and a lot of people I’m sure, Tarifa and more precisely Canos de Meca does score quality waves; nothing epic but how I best describe it to my friends is a more side shore and sandy version of Pozo! All you need is a strong Levante to create the boom to logo high wind swell that breaks on the reef and sandbars from Canos all the way down to Trafalgar.
I sailed pretty much non-stop from 9am to 4pm. I’d say the jumping is probably the best bit about Canos, although at the right state of tide there can be some fun punchy sections to ride. It really is a fun place to sail, nothing too radical that would risk being hurt but enough to satisfy any adrenaline junky. The locals all sail to a really high standard, tweaked pushies and huge backloops were all going down in between ‘work’ breaks!! It seems that 3.7/3.3 is the standard size sail the guys use around here which makes packing a board bag pretty easy!