Angry Lake

Waves and Wind. 745am

Just get yer ass out there dude.

Todays HP was an angry one. Winds gusting up to 50mph off the water had the waves hitting 4 feet (or more since I could not measure them). The water was running 30 to 40 feet up the shore. Coming here under strange conditions is a highlite. I could barely stand up with the high winds and that was just weird. I like weird.

On my way back into town I saw this dude with a surfboard on top his car checking out the waves.

Actually, DANOville is quite the hotspot for surfers in the mid west. Some days you can see 10 or more out on the lake. Just as others see us as crazy when we ride the beach when its near zero, the surfers ride waves here almost year round wearing very expensive wetsuits. And people think we are crazy. Those guys are in the water!

And every year they converge in huge numbers to compete. Us locals call it hippie fest as most of the surfing community seems a bit strange to us. They come from all over the country.  Thats a lot of tie dye shirts and VW buses.

So there's today's history lesson about DANOville.

Cycling and surfing.

DLD