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...

Father & Son

Shane and Nathan Oldfield trading waves on a late winter's afternoon. Nathan's blog Look & Sea is well worth frequenting.

Soak It In

Some great moving picture inspiration here.

Point Pull Out

Morning Wall

Deeply Wonderful

"Surfing is a deeply wonderful thing - anytime, anywhere and any way."

Gerry Lopez in his book Surf Is Where You Find It (2008). If you stop by here regularly you've probably realised by now the quotes I use rarely have anything to do with the surfers pictured. They're just things that I thought might be worth repeating. 

Go

Sprung

I was lucky enough to score a really fun and quiet midday session a week or two back. It was only small, but nice and clean with a steady westerly. The wind wasn't so cool and the flowers were out. Winter's on the back foot.

Speed

"The key to surfing, and everybody knows it, is that if you have speed you can do anything you want."

Donavan Frankenreiter in Surfing World 304 (2010)

Little Things

Sometimes they make an otherwise unremarkable surf, remarkable.

High Flyer

Gidgets

Eject

Yeah Right

"I found Noosa in '59 but no-one believed me until about '63" 

remembers Bob McTavish in Surfing World 295 (2009). With the crowded conditions so familiar to us these days, sounds like a "problem" anyone of us would gladly handle...

Late at Point

Cramming in some post work water time.

Water's Edge

Worm Catching

Brett's a routine before work surfer, yet again illustrating the old adage "the early bird catches the worm".

Sharing the Stoke

Winter Beachie

Cold but quiet, who needs summer?

Different

Different days and ways.