Murphree Hall

tired legs are a myth

 

I remember Donovan once saying anyone is allowed to shoot any shot, but if it’s a bad one, it better go in.

 

NBA 2k25?

 

I would imagine at this point, he doesn't want to mess with the mo. He's celebrating with the rest of us, no doubt.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

I lived there my second year at UF. While not globe trotting to Domes, Puerto Rico and other world class surfing hot spots!

 

That's some really nice hair.

 

I lived on the mountain up from sandy beach, PR. Surfed Domes, Tre’s Palms, while I was there thirty days in early Winter swells. I was there in 1973. Lived in a banana plantation. Surfed every day till I flew back to Florida. My Dad thought I was crazy! Good memories.

 

Small world! That's when we were there. We stayed at Kahuna's Guest House in Puta (IIRC).

I brought an experiment keel fin with me that just "jammed" into my fin box (single fins back then). Sucker came out while surfing at "Pools". A little souvenir I left for the locals.

The crew. I'm the one wearing glasses. Pat on the far left and Jack on my right, were the two buddies I traveled there with. The two guys on the right were from Jacksonville. Can't remember where the other dude was from.

That's Kahuna's bus behind us. He had just picked us up from the San Juan airport and brought us cross island to his "Guest House". Loved the PR mountains....my first surf trip outside the US - man talk about livin' the dream!




Back to Murphree Hall.....that's my roommate on the left and the other guy also lived on the same floor. His name was Ron and he was from North Miami. He always carried a potable cassette recorder/player around with him. Guy had a great sense of humor!




Me again. So glad I took these photos from back then! The next year I moved off campus!

 

I guess you can have the pics on a picture hosting site and then just link to the image.

 

Right click on the photo and see if it pulls up a "resize" menu option. You'll see a bar you can move back and forth. Move it to the left until the reading says medium. Save as a copy to a folder new folder or just rename it....and then try posting that file instead of the original.

 

My first surf trip outside continental US, also.
We surfed Sandy Beech every day till some one told us it was the full moon tonight and you will know to go to Tre’s Palmes. I woke up hearing cannons going off, we grabbed our boards and headed over the mountain to Tre’s Palmes, It was Breaking in three spots, the point, Maria’s and dog mans.We were stunned, huge 6’ to 8’ barrels perfect rights. I needed a bigger board as I only had a 6’ 4” single fin with home made leashes, they told me where to paddle out and how to lineup by the Palm Trees. Well, 18 and full of myself I paddled out to the lineup. about twenty five surfers out and most from Florida. I kept looking to shore as I was at least a quarter mile out. As I was trying to find how I was lined up I turned around speaking to anyone who would listen, oops no one was there anymore. I looked to the horizon, the sky was grey, I thought. Nope, it was a huge swell that was closing in on the whole point break. I took off 45 degrees away from the huge wave and kept my head down. They had told me if you get caught inside paddle like I was doing and if the wave is curling above your head and you know you won’t make, throw your board away and swim into the curling wave to Cushing the body slam. Well, I did this, then took an elevated ride to the top , then thrown out at least twenty feet, then slammed to the reef thirty feet down. The bubbles were boiling around me, I had hit the reef, cut my foot, so I took off swimming to the top. I hit the bottom agin as I thought I was heading up, so I opened my eyes an looked up, thirty feet to the surface, so I pushed off the bottom and started swimming up for my life, out of breath. As I got close to the surface, I was out of air, swallowed water but kept reaching for the surface. I made it and felt releaved, then saw the second huge swell sending me to the bottom again, this time about twenty five feet deep, again I swam to the top to see the third wave pummel me also, but it swept me off the reef. Now no board and about two hundred yards from a 6’ shore break. I survived this ordeal, but I learned you need to be ready with the right equipment and experience.
My board was broken in half and I had to call Florida to get more boards sent down.
Domes was a nice right, much smaller than Tre’s Palmes, but fun and easy to paddled out in a reactor pool and very shallow with sharp coral.
Thirty days of an endless surfing trip, awesome memories.

 

Much smaller when we were there (December break). In fact my 2 buddies left to go back home early. Me being the adventurous and independent type, stayed. I also met a gorgeous local my age and also a student on break. She spoke zero english and I spoke zero spanish so I had to use my pocket english-spanish dictionary, which was a bit awkward. Even with the smaller surf - I had a great time!

 

@bullish - I know you've heard of "Maria's".

The fellow in the middle is Maria's husband. The other two are friends of mine from here who traveled and surfed PR many times.

Mike Martin on the left was the American judge on the ASP pro tour back in the 80's. Sadly, he passed away a few years ago.

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I lived in Murphree in 1967-68. Our rooms didn’t look anything like the pictures on UF’s website.

My sister lived in Jennings from 1963-68. We were at UF together her last year and my first year.

My daughter was at Broward Hall her 1st year, maybe 2000-2001, then off campus. My youngest son was at Hume Honors Dorm in maybe 2009-10, then Springs for a year and then off campus.

My parents paid for my undergraduate degree and I worked my was through law school without their financial support. One of my kids has 2 degrees from Florida and the other kid has 1 degree. By my count, I’ve paid for 4 UF degrees.

I wish I had some pictures of my days there.

 

You mean this kind of gold:

 

I've been around so long that my poster name was Crusher, then I had to change it to TOCrusher (The Original Crusher) because someone stole my name on one of the board resets, then back to Crusher after the last platform change.

 

I've paid for 3 UF degrees: one for me and for my son and elder Daughter. I'm hoping to add on more to my total for my 18yo Daughter who is currently a Fr at Sante Fe.

 

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