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NOVAAN
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| 3Rd floor balcony over looking Laguna Madre SPI in April. Best beach chair ever. Beer in one hand and a taco in the other watching friends blasting on the bay... |
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kevinkan
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NOVAAN
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep. Pretty cool. I didn't get to go last year. Went the prior 4 years. Great warm wind anything from 4.2 to 6.5 Warm shallow water. Polar vortex thing killed the normal reliable April winds this year... |
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whitevan01
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outcast
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nw30
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No beach chair for me, whenever I go to Maui I pack my trusty hammock, I string it up between a couple of palms, behind where I stay, and I'm good.
After breakfast I'll spend hours in that hammock just waiting for the wind to pick up, I've see all of Maui, no reason to leave the hammock. |
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J64TWB
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds very civil NW. I'll take one in blue. |
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gvogelsang
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 7:29 am Post subject: Re: Favorite Beach Chair, and why? |
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| isobars wrote: | | bse wrote: | My dad always said he'd pick up golf in his old age, right up until he died in his eighties.
I like your sentiment, but sometimes if I'm not sitting at the beach waiting for the wind to blow, i'll miss it... just the place i live and the conditions I have to deal with! here in the midwest it will be calm all day, then blow at 30mph for 30-40 minutes, then quit again. I assure you i'm not waiting for better wind, just wind. |
My personal sentiments on golf, too; all of the frustration, none of the exercise of actual SPORTS.
I hear you on the wind waiting. That's also NM in midsummer, when the only source of wind is thunderstorms. WSers used to line the shores by the scores early Saturday AM and sit there all day in case something stirred. Fortunately, we could get 2-4 hours of strong, steady wind from T-storms in our eastern plains well over a hundred miles away. Unfortunately, closer ones often messed up those winds and added incredible fireworks, including lightning at the lake to the tune of multiple strikes per minute with some drive-bys. It made sailing dicey on three counts: instantaneous shifts in wind speed and direction plus the Russian roulette factor. I was safer sailing than were the guys (aka grounding rods) leaning against their Winnebago lightning targets. |
IF you walk and carry your clubs, you can get a decent amount of exercise out of playing golf. No, it's not quite like a great session of windsurfing; but it is exercise nonetheless. |
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isobars
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, but how many still walk? And although I misspoke with my "none" -- that was a golf joke more than a scientific observation -- even the walkers replace any calories expended with that sandwich after the game. Either way beats a lawn chair, though, as prolonged sitting is as hazardous to our health as smoking. |
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J64TWB
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Golf is pretty fun kin difficult. Amazing finish. I would say one of the most difficult things to master. |
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