Holidays

Early

Summer Snap

Flags Are Back

And there's more and more summer surfers every week... night surfing anyone?

Gulls & Green

Hack & Whack

Pines

Anything

"I'll ride anything. Stand up on a bodyboard, longboard, shortboard, anything."

Julian Wilson in Surfing World 304 (2010)

Round

Monstrosity

I know my wife for one thinks these are gawdy monstrosities, but I can't help but have some fun with colour every now and then. Apologies if you share her view! Jake Foster getting loose in his well ventilated steamer.

Wind's Coming

Squeezing the last out of a morning session before the mid morning onshore really kicks in.

Hunting

Why?

On looking at this image I'm left wondering why on Earth I was still standing on the shore with waves like this going unridden?

Spring Views

Green Glider

Keep Doing It

"I've come to believe that surfing is as deep and meaningful as one wants it to make it. At the same time, surfing is as shallow and light as pure fun can be. Do it for whatever reasons a person can want, but keep doing it."

Gerry Lopez in Surf Is Where You Find It (2008).

Point Surf

Rock 'n' Roll

Don't forget to put the clock forward an hour tonight, daylight savings is back already. Good for after work crew, not so good for early risers.

Spring Air

Grey Day

One month of Spring down and it's been surprisingly good with a consistent run of south swells keeping us busy.

Rights

Grom Zone

School holidays are on. Grommies will no doubt be surfing themselves ragged all over the coast. This was a small Autumn arvo and they were all over it.

Loose Log

Sand

It's a bit of a bummer when you turn up to your go-to spot with the right swell & wind only to find the lack of sand, or the shape of the sand rendering the surf pretty much useless. It's a real bummer when it happens again & again for what seems like forever! The waves above are of course benefiting from some well placed sand, good times.

V Bottom Slide

Local surfboard restorer David Platt sliding what from memory was first surf on a freshly restored vintage v bottom. Having a load of fun too. 

Harris In Autumn

Orange

Two Ways

Right & left, under & over. I think both came unstuck, but I'd assume fun was had for both. And as I often repeat, that's what it's all about.

Two Turns

Just Checking

Fetch

Top Turn

Interlopers

Morning Regulars

Fire Sale

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Late Float

Slow Moe

Morning Runners

Autumn Arv

Out & About

PeekingPeak

Longboarders

The Blues

Winter wishing.

Brine Time

Wanna Have Fun

Spat

Spitting beach barrel.

Early Riding

Polynesians in general, especially Hawaiians, and now even the Peruvians are among the very early known surfers. Maybe we could also add Paul the Apostle:

"And falling into a place where the two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves... they which could swim cast themselves into the sea... And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land."

There you have it, "some on boards" off the island of Malta around 60 AD. As recorded in Acts 27. Not to mention Jesus walking on water! 

Last Summer

Wasn't all bad!

Pinch & a Punch

Although the water's still cold, Winter is officially over and Spring is here. It's good and bad. Summer's coming with warm weather and water but lackluster surf and crowds... I've been enjoying taking pictures of flowers lately, likely to be a few more yet. Wouldn't it be great if Spring defied all expectations and was the pick surf season for once! Here's hoping...