New Adventures: Night ride Boliver to 61st Street

After a busy day at the shop Chris and I left and headed for Galveston to get the last of the East wind.  It was around 6pm when we left the shop so by the time we dropped a car at 61st street and took the ferry over to Boliver it was 730-8pm and getting dark.  We made it across the ship channel (which is the video) before it got dark and then continued in the waves to 61st street in galveston.  It was one of the best surf sessions I’ve ever had.  The waves were huge and the wind was shifting slightly offshore so it cleaned the waves up and made them perfect to surf.  It was really really dark but the lights off Galveston gave us enough light to see each other and to see some of the oncoming waves.  I had one great moment when Chris and I were attempting to catch the same wave…he hit it and I just missed it.  So I was perched on top of a 10ft wave watching him surf the crap out of it aganst the lights of the city.  Pretty good stuff.  Great Ride!  We were on Slingshot 2012 Rally 8m kites and Slingshot Celeritas 5’4″ and Slingshot Globtrotter 4’10″ boards.  We finished around 930pm or so.

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