Booming waves and beach vigils for 'surf widows'
Yahoo News
NORTH DEVON - A century ago they might have scanned the sea for returning fishermen or for the spoils from wrecked ships, but on a February weekend the only women wandering this squally Devon beach are "surf widows".
Gloria Alcaraz frowns out at the heaving north Atlantic from the harbour wall as storm waves roll out of the mist, scanning the boiling ocean for a distant figure on a board carving across a wave twice his height.
"This was meant to be a romantic weekend before Valentine's Day," Alcaraz said, fresh from a long car journey to the beach alongside her surfer fiancée.
"You would have thought the surfboard could have stayed at home. Especially in this weather."...'
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