Drop Ins

nice pics Karlo,,,
A bit like that where I was..
Often like that when you have a few mals.
But they're generally a bit laid back ,, so no real stress..
Let 'em burn each other,,, take off a bit deeper, later, see if you can catch them.. !
I was surrounded by them today,,, and still managed to have a ball..
So much fun today , after two months out of the water,,I couldn't believe it..

Some etiquette would be nice, too.

Trigg Point 14-4-14 Nice Barrel,then Board in the head-WTF! Poor bastard

Dog eat dog today, absolute free for all.

Longboarders went out same day and nearly killed everyone

what a joke, doesn't look that hard to duck dive through the face of the wave,

Without sounding arroant (not sure if that's the right word here), maybe as experienced surfers we have a resposiblilty of teaching others that enter the water. A friendly tip to help out. Like many surfers when I started I had no idea, I just paddled out and took a thousand waves on the head, I had no lessons, just watched others and tried to copy.

I would expect many people fore go the lessons grab a mates board and head out with no idea. You can see just by the way they paddle out they shouldn't be there.

A freindly tip or even an impromtu lesson would go along way, you never know who you might meet or befreind.

I would think this guy would have done this a few times that day, maybe if someone had said "Hey you gotta hold to your board or turtle roll it, you'll kill someone letting go of your board" or "Hey it's too big for you here try Leigton it's smaller and more forgiving" may this could have been avoided.

Then I guess it all depends personalities you might end up in a fist fight - maybe it is a no win situation

I'm going surfing, hope the lid came off ok.

to be honest it looked like a real cluster f*ck out there in the surf over easter
same every year

Surfed a few places over the long break - some very crowded, some not so

One thing I noticed was the varying intensity of the crowd, by that I mean the vibe and actions of the crowd.

Yesterday was a bit less crowded at a break than on Saturday but man was it a s**t crowd. Everyone going for every wave like it was the last one they were gonna get - stuff that!

Me and a mate sacrificed wave quality for sanity and surfed away from the crowd just so that one did come through it was either mine or my mates go and we called each other in. Sure did not get as many waves but had a good laugh with my mate and enjoyed the session.

Ha ha don't be such a lazy bugger, its worth the paddle to get away from the bad vibe that has infected that place lately!

I reckon you just didn't cos you would not have as many people to talk to

Quite often the act of dropping in can make the difference between making it or not making it for the guy on the inside.

Funny, I rarely have a problem with people dropping in and I almost never drop in, like once every couple of years by accident. But I never take off on someone just in case and I never surf the two spots being discussed outside normal work hours.