{"id":1042,"date":"2017-04-11T17:12:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/?page_id=1042"},"modified":"2017-04-11T17:12:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:12:27","slug":"surfing-2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/surfing-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tailor-element tailor-section tailor-58ed00b05c3da\">\n<div class=\"tailor-section__content\">\n<div class=\"tailor-element tailor-content tailor-58ed00b05c3db\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Surfing 2013<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">For the very first time in 13 years of southwards travelling and endless motorway, we&#8217;ve finally enjoyed a thoroughly decent weekend of stonking weather. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Sunshine broke out for almost all of\u00a0Saturday and Sunday, the only exception being early Sunday morning when it was grey, misty and the air-conditioned &#8216;room with a view&#8217; communual changing\u00a0facilities were just a little cold. Hey, at least it wasn&#8217;t raining like normal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Getting changed Saturday lunchtime proved controversial:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8220;Clive, I can&#8217;t do this&#8230;&#8221; states a Scout prior to getting changed into his wetsuit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8220;Why not!?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s not raining, freezing cold and horrible &#8211; it&#8217;s too hot and sunny&#8230; I&#8217;m not used to it&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Saturday saw a meet up with some friends from Bristol, the Explorers from 4th Southmead had come down to surf as well &#8211; including an old 62nder who this time had no problem squeezing into his wetsuit&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Surfs up Surf School were excellent as usual and Sunday was voted the best day of surfing\u00a0even though the\u00a0slightly less surf was ensuring a calmer sea. Scouts returned from the waves with tales of all sorts of trickery: Usain Bolts, Buddhas, head stands and head twists all featured amongst an array of others. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Two investitures followed the surfing on Polzeath beach, overlooking the surf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">An enjoyable weekend yet again for our 13 Polzeath visit. <\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 2px solid #0d0303; width: 622px; height: 60px; background-color: #f4f718;\" border=\"2\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #0e0606; background-color: #f1ec22;\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/surfing-2013\/surfing-2013-sat\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Surf Saturday<\/span> <\/span> <\/strong> <\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #0e0606; background-color: #f1ec22;\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/surfing-2013\/surfing-2013-sun\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Surf Sunday<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #0e0606; background-color: #f1ec22;\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\">All the others:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/surfing-2013\/surfing-2013-others\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Campsite and a little bit of investing&#8230;<\/span> <\/a> <\/span> <\/strong> <\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #0e0606; background-color: #f1ec22;\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photobucket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i307.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn290\/mistergrant\/Surfing\/Surfing%202013\/Surf%20Sun\/Surf13Sun95i_zpse2d1469d.jpg\" alt=\" photo Surf13Sun95i_zpse2d1469d.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0It was a little exhausting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photobucket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i307.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn290\/mistergrant\/Surfing\/Surfing%202013\/Surf%20Sun\/Surf13Sun14_zps1c842d03.jpg\" alt=\" photo Surf13Sun14_zps1c842d03.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Team 62nd surfers 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing 2013 \u00a0&#8230;For the very first time in 13 years of southwards travelling and endless motorway, we&#8217;ve finally enjoyed a thoroughly decent weekend of stonking weather. \u00a0Sunshine broke out for almost all of\u00a0Saturday and Sunday, the only exception being early Sunday morning when it was grey, misty and the air-conditioned &#8216;room with a view&#8217; communual &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/surfing-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surfing 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1042","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}