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Longshot23

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« Reply #30 on: <05-11-11/0355:49> »
The only Real (surfing) waves are in Australia . . . .
With what tries to eat you today, I'd hate to see what happens when you add Mana!

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« Reply #31 on: <05-11-11/0443:45> »
As i said, something swims by, and more out of pure boredom simply eats you on the way . .
Australia is about the most magical place on earth i think.
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« Reply #32 on: <05-11-11/0452:21> »
I'd still love to know what's Uluru (aka Ayers' Rock) aka Imiri-te-Versakhan is supposed to be about.


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« Reply #33 on: <05-11-11/0510:16> »
huge aspected ritual site?
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« Reply #34 on: <05-22-11/1617:53> »
I live in washington play shadowrun and surf.  There isn't any surf in puget sound. You'd have to go to the coast.  Cape Flattery south to the tir border.  Which means crossing Salish land.

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« Reply #35 on: <05-22-11/2156:21> »
hailing from Florida I can assure you the gulf side is not a very good area for surfing. waves are too small, unless of course there's a large storm going through.

also might I suggest trying to find a way to surf without a board. Literally being able to ride any wave sounds rather fun.

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« Reply #36 on: <05-24-11/1056:18> »
I live in the Northwest, and the surf sceen is all about windsurfing here.  I don't know much about the Seattle area, but in Oregon (Tir in the 6th world) the Columbia river (or whatever the damn danelion eaters have renamed it) is some of the best windsurfing in the world, especially around the Hood River area.  I assume there must be places to go in the Seattle area.  If you google Seattle Windsurfing you get a ton of hits for shops, lessons, etc.  While the water is probably somewhat nasty in the sound, I don't think its necessarily an acid bath.  You are going to want a suit of some sort anyway, that water is cold and so is the wind most of the time, I am sure the 6th world windsurfers have adapted their gear to handle the environmental conditions.

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« Reply #37 on: <05-24-11/1727:27> »
You know, taming a Storm Dolphin in order to get some good waves in the Sound might be a way to get a business going...  The hard part is getting one to like you.  :P
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« Reply #38 on: <05-24-11/1821:15> »
not sure, but the old second edition adventure "Paradise Lost" might have some surfery info-
purely for the fluff perhaps...i seem to recall Hawaii being detailed in the rear of the book...dont feel like digging
through all my books at present.

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« Reply #39 on: <05-24-11/1839:25> »
Runner's Companion has one of the dwarf metavariant riding some crazy sci-fi surfboard in one of the images. I believe it is the hawaiian dwarf metavariant too.

and oddly enough there are surfshops in seattle today..... still no waves, have to drive 2 hours to the coast for surf.  Perhaps if it was super windy you might get a 3 foot curler on alki that breaks almost on the shore, but the conditions would be so terrible you'd have to be a physical adept to catch them.

and even though you can windsurf in seattle, most people drive to the columbia river to do it???? beats me.....

I volunteer for surf clinics(teaching their kids) with the Makah and Quileute tribes, so perhaps 60 years later they have kept the tradition alive and there is still an active tourist and surf industry at La Push and Neah Bay.