There was the odd one out the front here bakesy. But with the forecast I was expecting much better. So too was half of Perth who seemed to have made the journey south! There was a Tuesday morning back in Jan that was just off it's nut big barrels and shape was pretty good. I posted some pics of it here taken with my i phone. Strange thing was the forecast for that day was exactly the same as yesterdays forecast. Just shows the weaknesses in forecasting hey.
Trigg point on Sun morning was not that bad..It wasn't epic but the point itself had a few big waves roll through that were very nice. I sat one brake down and had a great time. Small runners and eventually built a bit bigger and spent the rest of the time practicing late takes offs and getting smashed inside. Actually pulled into a couple of nice cover up that held for a bit before dropping. Even managed on a one to get picked up and pulled back over the lip for a second drop
2 hours of closeouts though now I'm kinda sore..
Was friendly and mellow untill a short boarder paddled out full of hate for the lidders, or anyone younger than him..Shame for him mostly as the rest just giggled and enjoyed the show..
Ended up taking a drive yesterday and did better than I thought we would. Pretty consistent waist to chest with four of us out and offshore. Could've been worse.
Got bogged 'cos I was using a borrowed 4b and thought I had it in 4L and it was in 2L.
Standing there cursing poxy lightweight Gutluxes when one of the boys says "Why aren't the front wheels turning?"
KOOK!
^^^^ should be nice and clean for the rest of the long weekend doggie. The frequency was 14 and that gave the small swell some push.
zuke, have you got any photos of the right from a different angle like looking into the barrel. keen to see em if ya do.
Surfed a really fun ledge in the lefties region this morning was pretty chockas everywhere but this joint was empty. One other bloke paddled out after us. Was pretty good, pics tomorrow.
Just got back from LBB... surfed with doggie
Was about shoulder to occasional head high at 8am with wave after wave, but a bit too fast and most were closing out after 10-20m... by 10:30am even though the tide had filled in it was an inconsistent and lumpy waist to very rare shoulder high.
Some of the smaller fun ones held up, but the 15kt+ NNE - NNW was doing it's best to ruin them...
It was good to get back in the water after 4-5wks of nothing... and a bonus to see a Dolphin and calf only 2m away.
Oh and it was ridiculously packed by 10:00am - I reckon we had 10 cars pass us heading in on the track as we strapped the boards on... it was grid-lock there for a few minutes!
Did the north metro run between Nth Mullaloo and Sth Trigg... nothing to get excited about. Trigg was so straight third car park was all but un-rideable... Point Packed was well - packed!
Got despo and went out at Mettams rights on the 9.1 - got a reasonable right, but still a bit too rocky for my liking, so paddled over to the left which I have not surfed for 15+ years... 22 of us waiting for shoulder high fatties... 4 to a wave. If you can accept that it's a fat party wave and there's nothing else going it was a bit of fun.
Bloke with a fancy watch said the water temp was 23.5 - which was nice.
EDIT - red thumb for a metro report - you gotta be kidding...
Went out to Trigg Point at first light and there was the odd ok one coming through and holding, pretty packed though.
^^^^^ I was watching the graphs for down south and it looked like it would have been a great long weekend!
on my face.
Great weekend with the south west delivering
Wedge yesterday was busy, cars on beach looked more like peek hour but water was lovely and were i surfed there was no one else. Spent a lot of time pushing in kids and they had a great time. The water out the back was just unreal. I haven't had water so clear and glassed of for some time and paddling around all the sting rays was choice..
Not bad surf but there were better spots on the beach. Bit straight wallie and dropping but just a pleasure.
Tying up 6 boards on roof and a full car sucked and I'm yet to vaccie out the sand from car
Got out at surf beach a few times over the weekend. There wasn't much on in the way of size but shape wise it actually wasn't too bad. There were a few fun ones on offer with nice glassy conditions all weekend.
The crowds however were pretty mental, and there was a small group of older blokes (late 40's) on longboards causing absolute chaos in the lineup through a number of collisions and near misses. I saw one bloke in particular ding two boards in separate incidents through a combination of dropping in and then kicking his board out. I saw the same bloke ding a 3rd kids board the following morning. They were obviously new to surfing, and entitled to enjoy the ocean as much as anyone, but wouldn't it be nice if these great big logs were sold with a brief guide to surf safety and etiquette?
Surf's up! But find a reefy because the beaches are straight. The Point had a bit of size.
beaches were very straight
i jumped in a mettams for a quick 40 minute paddle.. was pretty shallow but got a couple of waves!
was sitting a bit further north than most of the longboarders/superss. so probably a bit rocky where i was
