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If you have the opportunity I strongly recommend visiting the Tuna tank at the Monterey Bay Aquarium during a feeding. Watching a fish the size of a VW Beetle s

• gerdesj 4y ago
  Many moons ago I lived in Cyprus and rather enjoyed windsurfing. I recall a rather lovely session off Evdhimou beach in around 1986ish. The wind was 4-6 and nearly directly onshore, surf about 3 foot, so ideal conditions for seriously fast blasts for miles before a gybe and then more of the same. I was sailing a Fanatic Bee - semi sinker and a 5.5m2 sail. I was doing a broad reach at full belt, bouncing over wave peaks, spray everywhere. That beach is very shallow - 1.5m (5') for about 1/2 mile or more and it is also basically quite flat. That means that waves are quite stable when you get there. I came in from around 2 miles out. I'm hooked in, poised over the water about 18" from my bum doing around 20 knots. I'm perfectly balancing a shit load of forces and feeling absolutely invincible. I then see a dorsal fin rise up out of the water behind me and I came close to voiding my bowels. The Med doesn't have many sharks but there are some. Great whites turn up from time to time. It was a porpoise. I ran for around a mile with several porpoises bouncing around in my wake. I would twitch my board and they responded and pissed about in my tiny wake. They would probably prefer a bigger wake to play in but I was the best offer at the time.