Friday, 14th
September, 2012
Easkey, Sligo
Dreams of riding 3’-4’ clean,
smooth left handers at Easkey Left are disappearing. Since we have been here it
seems the wind has been blowing, blowing strong and blowing in the wrong
direction. Today seems no exception.
We drove across late
yesterday afternoon from Lackan
Bay after checking a
couple other spots. The wind, whilst coming from the southwest was strong but
hadn’t completely ripped apart the waves. Last night it switched, broad siding
us with north westerlies. Rain lashed down in droves and a restless night was
had. It’s beginning to depress me.
The sun is shining this morning
but I feel rain is inevitable. We need to find a computer and check the wind
for the next few days.
In 11 days I have had 1 day
of near perfect waves. Oh the wind!
Having had a brief look at a
swell chart it looks like we should be getting plenty of swell but with it the
wind which ranges from west to southwest through to northwest and strong
whichever direction.The only thing to do, I guess, is sit it out.
I wonder if Shaun’s around.
Aughris/Dunmoran
The corner of the beach offers us some shelter
but again no-one is in. A couple of guys have checked it but both have left.
One guy was Irish; the other I think was Ozzie, although he may have been a
Kiwi because he seemed to be of Maori or Aborigine in descent.
Talking to the Ozzie (?) guy
he mentioned Kilcummin
Harbour. I should have
checked it out because it works on a westerly. It doesn’t matter how many times
I read this guide book I always seem to miss the obvious.
Lackan Bay is the
other side of Kilcummin
Harbour and I missed it.
On listening to them talk I
heard the Irish guy say that this beach is best surfed high or low and not
in-between, so for now I will wait. Although the guide book states it can be
surfed on all tides local knowledge is key and the book can misinform.
On The Spiritual
Vernon posits that to be hesitant in regards to religion
runs the risk of staying your spiritual life. It is possible to be spiritual
without being religious but you might not get very far. How can I align myself
with a religion such as Christianity when I hear of Koran burning bigots like
the American pastor I heard yesterday on the radio speaking in regards to the
recent anti-Islam film?
It is easy to love thy
neighbour when your neighbour belongs to the same group as yourself. However,
as Vernon goes
on to say this connection to your own is also likely to lead you to reject
those who are from a different group, as they are deemed a threat.
Sympathetic love was for
Plato thought to be morally admirable. To love your friends is easy; the true
moral hero would be the person who can love those with whom they have little
natural sympathy.
In the words of humanist
philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), calm your spirit. Then you will see the
power of the divine – of life – all around and flowing through you.
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