After coming back from Belo Horizonte, I went to my beloved Praia do Forte. I missed beach and surfing but as there weren’t any waves, I decided to paddle a bit. It’s always a great training and also the best therapy ever – when you paddle to just stay far away from everything and everybody… and there’s just you and the ocean.
I also saw two sea turtles passing just next to my surfboard.
On the way back to the hostel, I passed by the surf school where I had taken the classes. Turned out there was a journalist there doing a reportage about water sports in Cabo Frio. They invited me to participate in it and few days later, my name appeared in Cabo Frio’s journal…
Here’s a small translation of the surf part of the article:
„Patrycja Orlowska, 21 years old girl coming from Cracow in Poland, is living in Cabo Frio for 5 months and she’s passionated about this city and its natural beauty. „It’s a paradise”, she claims. And it’s here where she had her awaited meeting with surfing.
„I always wanted to try, I saw many surf photos and videos and I fell in love, but I hadn’t traveled to any place where I could have really tried it before. When I came here, I knew there was a beach and I got introduced to some people from a surf school, I started to take classes and I just loved it.”
Surf tradition of Cabo Frio hasn’t started now. The city is a birthplace of Vitor Ribas, a surfer that has been taking part in World Surfing Championship for a long time, and he almost became a world champion twice.
The owner of the surf school, Ian Carrico, says that there is no age to learn surfing.
„I’ve already given a class to kids of 3 years old, and our oldest student was 65 years old. He caught his first wave at that age.”
