In my experience I'm just as likely to be snaked by a older person as a younger one. Rarely seems to be someone younger than me, unless they are really good.
Maybe it's just because I'm not agro at all when I surf and hate hassling and am seen as an easy target.
Ahh well, not the end of the world.
That sucks DP, not sure what you can do about it, I'm like you and can't be bothered hassling either. I rely on a bit of experience reading the ocean and just hope one comes my way and I'm in the right spot, if I get snaked I usually let it be but every now and then I might say "how about letting me have one?" to a dude who's a major snake. Sympathy can often work or striking up a conversation about surfing or some other stuff works too, if you mainly surf metro it can be a real issue I'm told
Hope you get a few tomoz
8:00am: Just in case you haven't heard - Scarbs closed at 7:00am due to tagged GWS within 100m of beach...
scored sic waves at d---s for the early, good head high and some hollow righthand barrels 5 crew out.spewin had to come to work
11:00am... 70% of yesterday's swell still hanging around... but the STRONG offshore is white-capping and the shape is best described as ordinary...
Lots of rocks sitting above the water at the northern breaks...
Surfed from 8 till 11 at 3rds, it was quiet, was by myself or with another one or two most of the time. Bit inconsistent but the sets were head height and there wasnt many with shape. 20-30 sitting in a rip on a little bank on top of each other, didn't realise Scarborough was closed?
Some banks and it would have been great, still fun.
Sharks didn't worry the SAS this Arvo. As alarm sounded at scabs 1230ish 10 SAS men jumped out of low flying Hercules into the water off swanbourne. Went for surf at trigg south, whoops I mean secret spot between the p---t and s---s, got hammered on 1-2ft close outs, going right into the wind was hard work almost like standing still!!! Fins up my clacked at one stage till rolled by wind thank Christ a second and third arsehole woulda been great
Great bikini action on the beach though
I put the call out for a late one this arvo in the hope that the wind would drop off. No one was interested so I went solo again.
Secret spot T###g was a waste of time... but a group of six or seven 12yo's were having fun on a small inconsistent RH bank at #? car park [but they only weighed about 32kg ringing wet and were the super-keen grom kind!!]
Twas expecting the wind to drop late this arvo, so headed down only to be greeted by buffeting winds. Saw potential on a couple of set bombs so got amongst it. Typically ordinary, but got a couple of respectable waves. Weed was thick.
aside from that, there was apparently a ~2m shark patrolling the metro coast today. didnt hear bout that one?
No I wasn't and no I didn't. I can't imagine the toothy suited guys feasting in the weed.
did you guys get the glassy conditions up that way this morning? it hung around till round 11am....thanks huey
Got a few little fun ones before work this morning at Perth's favourite beachie.
Crowds werent too bad either - Maybe we should Have Jaws on the telly every weekend...
Shared the stoke with a fellow 'breezer today. We took a long shot and did the early and travelled hoping the offshore would hang around long enough to make it worth it.
It did. Oh, and he was stoked! He paddled for everything that came through and his arms were like jelly by the end of the session. I didn't think he was going to make it back to the boat.
Only one bank working well at Trigg... other spots still getting a tad messed up with the prevailing rips and backwash...
The working bank was like a summer weekend with at least 30 crew sharing competing for the waves... saw a lot of drop-ins going on... and on some waves up to 5 guys paddling for it - ah, the joys of Trigg on a sunny day [}:)]
A tonne of weed around too... unusual for that part of the beach.
Beachies north of Lano were ok yesterday morning, a bit inconsistent sets around head high. Crowd was pretty quiet, still spooked?
No photos sorry
Some nice looooong hollow ones this morning, swell seemed to catch most out, was nice and quiet. Shallow though, bailed on one closeout and ended up with my leg down a hole to the knee
