Some this year

Brief snippet of some surfs this year, nothing epic but at least im getting in the water a little bit.

southport slut

Had a couple more surfs at southport in January. Pretty average really, two reasonable swells that just didn't do anything size or quality wise. Got to test out my new single pin gopro mount which was cool. Its way better than the base plate, just less to put pressure on and created less drag on the camera. First use i only turned the camera on for a couple of waves as it really wasn't worth it.



Second surf i got to catch with Phil who had been in the stated for a couple a months. decent well but poor winds and banks and a fair crowd too. Handed over my board to Phil so he could get some footage but neither of us got anything particularly good. Here is a couple of Phil's rides




The casing mount broke on me this time, have almost broken all the original parts now. Bad luck on my behalf i think as i haven't heard others say they have broken as much as me. It not as though the waves its been used in have been big enough to justify the breakages either so I'm a little annoyed. I have glued it back together for now but no doubt it will snap off again the next time it gets used.



On the positive though i have had 4 surf this year all ready and its only just gone in to February. That's one third of the total surfs i managed last year! Happy days......for now

Fun Day with the family

On wednesday i took the family down to port elliot. My Bro was down there on holidays so we had a visit with the kids. The morning was raining which was good becasue the wind wasnt half as strong as it was forcast. The morning was filled with mini golf and ferris wheels, donuts and jumpy castles. Tired the kids out nicely so after some luch we put them to bed and my bro and i made the 1 min journey to knights. The wind was picking up but still less than forcast and we were amazed to only see 2 people in the water. it was 2 ft occassional bigger one and pretty lumpy. got some fun closeouts then some larger peaky ones and manage to roll of another. Was only a quick session but fun enough. Met a person i went to school with out in the water which was weird. Had a little chinwag and catchup in between some waves. Was a good day overall. went to the beach with the kids in the afternoon then trundled on home.

First surf for the year

Well, first surf for the year was fun enough. Better than most of last years surfs even if it was only 1.5 ft max. Started the morning flicking a lure around for some salmon and waiting for the tide to drop. That didnt last long as there was a decent bank and fairly regular waves coming along. With no one else in the water it was too much to resist so i went back to the car and got my gear and paddled out. Nothing epic but got to practice a few moves and get some little barres when the tide got lower. Got a bit bored so paddled over to the reef to have a look with my camera. On the way back i thought id try and catch some waves with the gopro in my hand. Was kinda fun and good for getting a slightly different angle. Here's a few pics










A little vid i made is here

3hrs sleep, 300kms and 3 puffers

I had had wed and Thursday off to go away for my 7 yr anniversary so thought i might take Friday as well and get some waves down south, it was supposed to be small 2+ ft but offshore.
I had to work Thur night though so crawled into bed just after 1 am and set the alarm for ten past 4.

My alarm wasn't all that well received but i trundled out of bed and began my solo trip.
Mt Compass had a nice little bit of fog.



Got to Knights just as the sun was starting to show



It wasn't looking very good, watched it for about 10 mins and it was too straight and too small





Travelled further south to Parsons, It was a bit wobbly and the banks were pretty shite. Only one person out




Travelled back to waitpinga and it looked slightly better there,clean with a slight wobble but head high, peaky left and rights so suited up and went out. First couple waves were all right, nothing special then got a nice left and hit a decent roll with some good projection. couple more waves then the bloody wind shifted east south east and i had to put up with apple crumbles. Occasionally one opened up a little but it was a bit disappointing. Took some snaps when i got out.






Surfed for a few hours then thought I'd try for a fish on the other side of the peninsular

'Lush'....not a word often heard in SA..i wonder why






Got a few fish but it was too clear and calm and bloody hot standing on the jetty,


Packet up and got home about 330pm. A very enjoyable day off but a little underwhelming on the surf front

No more stormies

Well, i reckon ill give up on stormies. They used to be so much fun but lately they never seem to deliver. Not sure what it is but theres been no shape and the waves have had the worst quality. Went out last weekend with Phil. Christies had a little stormy wave but we went to southport for a bit more size. Turned out we should have stayed at christies as southport didnt deliver. Christies was too small to really have any fun on but we did make one barrel each so i suppose that is better than nothing.

Raaaaahhhhh

Still frustratingly unable to get a good surf in. Went down to victor harbour a couple of weeks back with the family to see if we could spot some whales. Was only one around a long way out from bashams beach so wasnt all that exciting. Managed to squeeze my board in so got a quick hour at knights. The beach was missing a lot of sand so the foreshore was pretty much just rocks and the waves were breaking a lot further out than normal. The wind was a puff onshore and the waves in the 2-3 ft category. Was a bit crowded so just hung wide and picked up some of the wider wedges and closeouts just to keep my wave count up cause i only had an hour. Better than nothing though so i guess i cant complain too much.

Went out on Sunday just gone too, cracker swell predicted, but didnt have enough time to go down south and watch the heatworks pro at knights. So i dragged my bros sorry arses out of bed at 5am and was hopping to get high tide christies Y steps. I checked the bouy before i left and there was 4.5 m around and the wind was offshore so i was pretty sure that it would be working. Unfortunatley the swell must have been more south than southwest and it just didnt happen. it was a slow weak swell refracting around Kangaroo island and christies just didnt have enough waves of a reasonable size. Went round to southport and tried to make the most of the rest of the session on some wind affected 2 footers, managed to pop a nice air on my first wave out but after that it was pretty frustrating. I'm quite pissed today that the surf didnt co operate. I really needed a decent wave, its been very slim picking for quality this year when i have time to get out. Even more madening because there has been some good swell around this winter. RaaaaaaaaaaaHHHHHHH

A few embarrassingly small waves at southport









And some crap footage from at christies