Woke at 2:30am and felt a bit sore. We go to local market and buy ugg boots from Australia for quarter of the price. There's my 'Chilean' gifts for the family. Back at Monolo's place we continued cladding and started pitching the roof. All moves along quickly, and the house is taking shape. The local family cooked up an amazing seafood chowder for our lunch. Clams, mussels, abalone along with chicken beef and rabbit cooked in white wine. Robbie finds shot pellets in his rabbit! I find the head of the rabbit floating in the mix.
We push through to 3:30pm knowing the wind has been glassy all day and down tools to make the late session. Punta de Lobos is 5-7' dead glassy and running 300m down the point. It's a mad scramble of wetsuits, boots, hoods and the sketchy paddle across the channel to the stacks and then into the lineup. Seals swim around and a handful of surfers dot the lineup - no hassle. A spectacular sunset finishes the day.
We join Nate for the fledgling CS meeting and three core local surfers come along. I share some story of CS, challenge the guys to surrender their surfing to Jesus and teach on the parable of the talents. God is not so concerned with how well we surf but how well we serve. We finish with a local party, supposedly starting at 10:30 but people arrive at 12...just as we leave.
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