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Surfing Scotland, Part 3: Southward(Comments Off)
Coasting to a stop beside the vans, I looked again at the waves. I wasn’t epic, but it was plausible and glittering in that lime-green hue, the waist-high waves looked like fun. I asked one of the surfers in the van when the water would reach high tide. “It’ll be high in about an hour,” [...]
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Surfing Scotland Part 2: The Islands
The little girl’s tiny green face was the picture of woe. Like many other passengers on the ferry crossing The Minch she was seasick, but she wasn’t lying down or crying like the others. She was sitting up and staring at an invisible point a few feet in front of her eyes as if perplexed [...]
Surfing Scotland Part 1: The Highlands
“Aye, ye jest go up tha hill here, through two gates, an when ye git over tha hill ye’ll see tha loch on yer right. Cross the moor an on tha far side o’ tha loch ye’ll find tha track.” Christine’s mother waved her cigarette in the direction of the hills. Her fingers were so [...]