Waitpinga

Surfed waitpinga on Sunday morning. The wind wasnt really cooperating and was very westerly giving the waves a bit of a wobbble. There were some good ones around but they were rare. Size was in the 2-3ft category. Didnt surf particularly well this day, kept taking too high a line and getting flipped in the barrel, I'm too out of practice. Hopefully get a few more surfs in soon and ireon out the creases in my surfing. Great to be out in the water again though. Big pod of dolphins was swimming and circling us and surfing the waves. Always love it when the dolphins are around.

Took a couple of pics from the top of the hill before i went out. Nothing very good, auto focus and long distances equal fail. It was still early and dark to the images are of poor quality

Mid coast grovels

Its been ages since i was in the water. 66 odd days so when i saw this swell comming i knew it was time. Just been too busy with work and kids so made sure i had a bit of time to get amongst it.


I only had time to go on the mid but i wasnt sure what day would be best. Was a bit worried that the swell would slip a little too far south and might miss the small window that allows swell to get around kangaroo island and into adelaide so i went and checked it out on friday and sunday.

On friday, it was only 1-2ft and slightly onshore but i didnt mind. First wave i'd had for 2 months so just jumping in the water felt amazing. got some fat right handers then when the tide dropped sussed out a little bank that was opening up a bit offereing some punchy but small closeouts.

I tempted Murphey on sunday and didnt take the gopro out. Murpheys law says that if i took the camera i wouldnt get good waves and if i left it behind id get good waves but not be able to record them. As it turned out, Sunday was better, wind was offshore, swell was bigger. Picked up my brother and we got down there before sunrise. The tide was a bit too full so we ended up at seaford which is not usually a wave i would choose to surf but it was looking pretty nice. It got to around 2-3 ft and was clean as a whistle early but also very crowded. Still managed to sneak plenty of nice waves though and had a few barrels and cloeouts, some rolls and some spins. pretty fun sesh, then we headed to southport beachie. There was good size but the wind had drifted to a slight onshore which made the waves a bit crumbly bey it stayed fairly clean. Got a few waves there and found some sections to roll off before calling it a day. We took my brothers camera out and got some snaps but right near the end of the session it stopped working and looks to have taken on a bit of water. Dont know if we'l ever see the photos..Damn olympus waterproof cameras, almost everyone tht has them say they break in a year or so. Overall was soo glad to get a surf again. Cant wait for the next one. There are a couple of swells on the horizon Yeeew