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Electric Surfboard Off Bellingham

After our hike around Whatcom Falls Park, we headed down to Boulevard Park between Fairhaven and Bellingham to have our lunch.  We sat by the water watching the activities out on the water.  While we sat eating our sandwiches, someone came zipping along the shore on an electric surfboard with a hydrofoil.  They were certainly pretty quick and headed off in to the distance.  It was a while before they came back the other way which leads me to believe these things must have a pretty decent battery capacity.  To any surfers reading this, have you given one of these things a go?

Italian Hydrofoils

This is a throwback to a trip long ago.  We went to Italy and started our trip out up in Milan.  We made a day trip to Lake Como and I was delighted to see hydrofoils on the lake.  As a kid in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, the hydrofoils were a part of life.  They made the quick crossing to Southampton – half the time of the ferry.  It cost a bit more but it was so much easier.  When we lived on the waterfront, I got so used to the hydrofoils humming in and out of the harbor.  They were built in Italy and one of the ones I saw on Lake Como seemed to be an identical design.  They are long gone from the Solent but clearly were still plying Lake Como when we were there.  I wonder if they still are?