[Leica] PESO: Pano of Biarritz in winter

[Douglas Barry]

Didn't see this as I've been a bit tied up, John.

It's a good pano of a very dangerous place. A good friend of mine lost his 
young daughter there - I knew her well - when she was on a student surfing 
trip just over a decade ago. The rip tides are horrendous, and much more 
difficult than everybody expects. She was a very experienced surfer, strong 
swimmer, and was extremely fit. Her funeral was a terrible ordeal for 
everybody as she was a wonderful, and very beautiful girl, and had always 
seemed so full of life.

For those of you who don't swim, a rip tide is a frightening experience. I 
was caught in one some years ago in Bray - a place I thought I knew like the 
back of my hand. However, coastal works had changed the bathyscape, and a 
very unusual - for us - north east wind gave me an unexpected rip tide when 
I went for my morning swim. I suddenly found myself out much further from 
the beach than expected, and, while at the time I was a fairly strong 
swimmer as I used to do triathlons, I found myself unable to make much 
progress back. Having swum there for years, the change just didn't compute, 
and I ignored the First Riule of Holes and kept digging. I was lucky to 
extricate myself almost completely exhausted.

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.fr>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2017 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] PESO: Pano of Biarritz in winter


> Thanks Lluis
>
> john
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> Very nice view
> Lluis
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>> El 12 gen 2017, a les 12:20, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> va 
>> escriure:
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>> Also  high tide...
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>> http://johnmcmaster.com/PESO/Panoramas/Pano_Biarritz_03.jpg
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>> C & C welcome
>>
>> john
>>
>
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