Well the birthday weekend turned out to be a great one. We headed up to tawas Saturday morning. There was no wind to be found even though we carried all our equipment out to the point just to carry it all back with out riding. Then we went for a swim and we all played a little volleyball in the water. Once we got bobby spotted a wind line. The wind suddenly changed from SW to NE. I grabbed my 16 and brian’s glide. But no luck, just not enough wind. We called it a night. We arrived at the beach in the morning. Not looking forward to the forecast for the day (SW@5 with storms and clouds). The wind had not stared up yet but we dragged out stuff down to the beach and the started to pick up. A huge storm came in view. The wind picked up and got a short ride until the storm got too close. It passed just east of us. We got good rides in on all our light wind gear for the entire morning. Later in the day it picked up for about an hour. I was totally lit on my 16m. We had a great session, what a birthday present! Then we packed up and headed up to the sable inn for a birthday dinner (thanx Lefeve). We hung out for a while at the campsite. Then we went down to the beach to get a better view of the stars and the Milky Way, which were glowing like spotlights that night. As we got to the water there was a very steady breeze. I was just not enough for our biggest kites, so we headed back to the camp and went to bed. So Monday was suppose to be an epic SW wind day. So we went into town to get breakfast. After that I spent time in the coffee shop getting all my homework done. I arrived an hour or so later to see everyone just starting to pump up their kites. After I walked to the point I pumped up the 16 rode (what timing). The rest of the day was history. It was full of unhooked fun in the 2’ glassy ponds, some tiny wave booters, log jibs and island jumping. It was a terrific day.
