Where did you surf today?

Surf was 3 foot and good winds but crowded with non locals..Might make this my last post as i might encouraging more tourists to visit here.
We already have way too many tourists staying here stealing shit and being hoons with no respect and paddling inside locals at the point and other breaks paddling out in a group of tourists.
Im a half bodyboarder half stand up but find it hard to get waves already..if i keep posting on here i might encourage greedy kooks from Perth or where ever to come here.

Had fun on small beachie after a week out of the water nursing a dislocated left pinky finger.
Previous week made the paddle out at the same beachie with a better swell running. First wave i swung into managed to pop my pinky into the rail as I went to pop up. Dislocated at the joint and was fully trapped. I paddled in and tried to pull it back but it wouldnt budge. Had to go to the ER for assistance. Sat there in moderate pain for 1.5 hours waiting for my turn. Had an xray then the nurse put me on gas and had a go pulling it out and back up on the joint. She couldnt move it. A burly doctor then had a go, even under gas that was agony and it didnt budge. They did a ring block - which is several needles around the joint until i couldnt feel anything there. Doc then says he has to loosen the tendons. I wish i didnt watch. He grabbed the end of my finger in the dislocated position and starts doing 360 joystick moves on it before pulling it hard and finally i felt it go back into position. He asks the nurse to immobilise the joint as he had dislocated the very end joint doing that pull. I felt that go into place as well. Was very swollen for most of the week and Ive lost nerve function - numb at the tip. Crazy

Under the windmills, Indo in a wetsuit. Great waves, good conversation. Lots of hoots.

Lots of waves today, well overhead with some bigger close out sets making the paddle out tricky. But some nice A frame lefts and even a couple of rights. Two others out, I'll get it while it is on offer, it won't be too much longer now.

It was yesterday, but......
First waves post lockdown, inconsistent 2 foot peelers have never looked or felt as good. Offshore, warm air, not too crowded. Geez it felt good.

Had a prone foil today. 3rd time prone…is so hard. This could take months and months to master.

If its fun and helps with your fitness keep going Roady is my suggestion . You will get it as perseverance always pays off .

Does anyone surf anymore? I mean days of cranking swell with long windows of good conditions over long sections of the NSW coast and........nothing. Even today, a bit smaller and softer but super fun on the beachies.

Sunday, head high to a little over. Oily glassy, grey on grey. Powerful and tricky. Heaps of fun.

Yesterday, same swell, little onshore, still fun.

Today, winds up, lay day. Tomorrow looking promising with new swell on the way.

So yes- as often as I can.

PS- last Friday, cranking at the point. Offshore and lined up. Only four of us out. Good sesh. Starting to get cold though.

blindboy wrote:

Does anyone surf anymore? I mean days of cranking swell with long windows of good conditions over long sections of the NSW coast and........nothing. Even today, a bit smaller and softer but super fun on the beachies.

Ive seen that stretch like pourto escondido or even better solid 8-10 feet NE swell barrelling down the line at that beach north of dum dums with no one out, i was by myself and tried to convince a mate who was at our campsite a few k's away to come out but i left my keys in my locked car so had to make other arrangements...anyway point is there are a lot of empty days on that stretch.
Even Nuggen used to be empty in the mid 90's until bodyboarders started filming it.

Head high and lined up at the point. 7 out, all good surfers but relaxed crew. Everyone got nice waves.

Been plenty of surf around recently.

Nice Zen, the crowds have backed off again with school back and restrictions eased so many are back in the office. Nothing great but some fun 2ft lefts running at Manly through the mornings with a handful out.

Ha ha the exact opposite down here Craig. Lots more people turning up. Here's hoping for a good run of waves for all those who have been frustrated by the lockdowns!

Haha, the mass exodus, gonna be great staying local on the beaches ;)

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groundswell wrote:

Surf was 3 foot and good winds but crowded with non locals..Might make this my last post as i might encouraging more tourists to visit here.

Might have to change ya thumbnail as well!
We already have way too many tourists staying here stealing shit and being hoons with no respect and paddling inside locals at the point and other breaks paddling out in a group of tourists.
Im a half bodyboarder half stand up but find it hard to get waves already..if i keep posting on here i might encourage greedy kooks from Perth or where ever to come here.

Might have to change ya thumbnail as well!!

Haha Nick that isnt a wave in Kalbarri, its a left in sumatra that no one surfs except me and a mate, my mate has a house there so he knows nobody surfs it. Right under everyone's noses but closes out unless the swell is real south and a big hightide...people walk right by it all the time even on good days...just hope the bra boys dont find out about it...could be the next ours/theirs.

4-5 foot day, a lot heavier than it looks and the reef is jagged and rough.
Scraped about 1/5 of my fins off surfing this joint on decent days.

That looks plenty heavy looking at that leading lip.

Swell magnet too. on days where the forecast says 3-5 foot Hawaiian size like swellnet its usually at least 4 foot. offshore in trades as well but prefer it early morning with no wind.
Theres a wave nearby which is good to loosen rusty hinges of not surfing enough and working hard to save for the trip, similar to Medewi. then there's other waves further south or further north that are just as gnarly but handle bigger..one spot im thinking of buying a 40-100 metre square block and retiring on...if im old and cant tuberide any more there's long fast walls on lowtides or if im feeling courageous on hightides there's shallow slabs on the flat reef stretching out into deep water...good for a lid too but nobody goes further south than benkinkut so most dont know about it.

After a week of pumping point surf, I once again surfed one of the busier NZ spots - solo.

Small swell, so nobody bothered looking, especially after a very good week of swell. Mostly shoulder high, but perfect, and a few sets were well OH. Was on my 8'6 DS thinking I'd need something like a longboard, and it was pure joy gliding into long point waves.

Sometimes you're just fortunate.

Happy camper.

Is that swell window hard to work out/idiosyncratic IB?

Nope. Quite the opposite.

This time of year is pretty bleak. The seasons have shifted, so no more lined up south swells and north swell doesn't get in here. In terms of wave size and quality, think mid winter sunshine coast, but about 15 degrees colder. Things should start to pick up again from March.

Pumping here Arcadia atm. We've had a good run of waves. Luckily we're open to most swell. Wind can be an issue here but we've been pretty lucky with that too.

Starting to get cold. Some in booties already. I'm holding off as long as I can.

Ps- can you get away without booties and gloves in winter down your way?

Zen, those waves sound nice but the cold must make it tough to keep the motivation up mid winter.
Round here, you never really need gloves. Booties are nice, but not essential. Although if you're surfing a river mouth and the river is gushing.......

Run out of swell down here. 2ft on the sets but slow soft and pretty much a waste of time.......but there were more people out than I've seen for a while. A sign of things to come. No complaints.

Surf was good yesterday at a usually empty spot that's pretty fun but b or c grade and rocky dangers on the end. usually hit your fins on the reef if you do a cutback near the end. Today its 1foot and crowded with tourists..good conditions but 1-2 foot occasionally. 2-3ft at the point but crowded and inconsistent.
would rather listen to some tunes.Good winds though and waters starting to get springsuit weather.

Didn't surf anywhere today , as expected car parks and beaches were chokka and Sydney has arrived.
Plenty of lowered hatchbacks playing fully sick sub woofer tunes , , the usual fleet of audi/mercs , the jacked up 4wd P plate crews , the endless stream of caravans , the turbo clowns revving the guts out of their turbo shitboxes up and down the local 50 kmh backstreets, Cafes are loaded and there's at least one new Ford Mustang parked outside each one. And then there's the muppets on Harley's on their show pony pub trips who think we'd all like to listen to the sound of a loud exhaust and admire how farkin cool and tough they and their bikes are. Not to mention the amount of turkeys getting bogged on the beach tracks in their lowered black AWD SUVs with low pro tyres set at 40+psi .
I woke up to a different world today , but nothing I wasn't really expecting. Wake me up when it's over.
Yeah I'm having a whinge , but the arrogance and sense of entitlement on display here today is next level,, and as I've said before I can't really blame them , I guess I was just hoping against hope that my hunch was wrong.

Ha ha a bit the same around here tubeshooter but lots of smiling faces in town as businesses got a boost and the tourists got to escape the cities. There was a bit of a crew early so I waited until the wind just started to pick up and got a couple of fun ones.

Yeah BB I,m genuinely stoked for the local businesses, and I am being a bit selfish and I'm also aware of that .
I'm sure I'll be able to sneak a few waves in here and there , and as I said before I surfed anything and everything the last month in expectation of this event.
I'll try to be nice them , but there are limits.

Yeh I imagine by January I will be approaching them too.

tubeshooter wrote:

Didn't surf anywhere today , as expected car parks and beaches were chokka and Sydney has arrived.
Plenty of lowered hatchbacks playing fully sick sub woofer tunes , , the usual fleet of audi/mercs , the jacked up 4wd P plate crews , the endless stream of caravans , the turbo clowns revving the guts out of their turbo shitboxes up and down the local 50 kmh backstreets, Cafes are loaded and there's at least one new Ford Mustang parked outside each one. And then there's the muppets on Harley's on their show pony pub trips who think we'd all like to listen to the sound of a loud exhaust and admire how farkin cool and tough they and their bikes are. Not to mention the amount of turkeys getting bogged on the beach tracks in their lowered black AWD SUVs with low pro tyres set at 40+psi .
I woke up to a different world today , but nothing I wasn't really expecting. Wake me up when it's over.
Yeah I'm having a whinge , but the arrogance and sense of entitlement on display here today is next level,, and as I've said before I can't really blame them , I guess I was just hoping against hope that my hunch was wrong.

Holy shit…..such a word perfect description. Do we live in the same town?

Walking back from the beach this arvo and there’s a little red 2 seat fake Sports car ( Honda?) driven by a P plater parked at the intersection. He was looking for his mate approaching in a car behind and revving the shit out of his engine. Then he spun the car out into the road and nearly lost it going sideways.

As he passed I stepped out as close as I dared, cupped my hands oaround my mouth and shouted as loud as I could straight at him ….”Get fucked!”

His smile disappeared real quick and his missus in the passenger seat looked like she was trying to burrow through the seat to escape the embarrassment. His mate in the car behind quietly drove in the other direction and my neighbour and his mates , who were having beers on his deck and saw the whole thing, gave me a standing ovation and a round of thanks.

Too bad that the P plater burnout clown is just the first of an army of dickheads who seem to think that that corner is the best place on Earth to to skids.

Haha, good on ya Blowin!

haha yep blowin , I let loose a few loud expletives probably worse than that today. I also have a large bruise on my forehead from banging my head against the steering wheel all day. I had to test my horn because for a while there I thought I was invisible.

Well everyone has definitely left Sydney. Very very quiet at a spot that was quite the opposite during lockdown. Stoked.

Staying home equals zigging while the others zag for Sydneysiders at the moment.

Yup! Just came in for another insanely fun surf. Was solo at the end shared with one other for most.

What no Tyler...damn he got the Swell Direction wrong and missed out
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Jeez you're a shit stirrer Udo.

All in fun Craigie...no mention of Kilojoules and Swell Direction yet...
off topic East Java been copping some big rains .

Well , as quick as the freakfest came this weekend ,this arvo has completely reversed and most of them have gone home already. Hopefully the midweek crowds remain pretty casual here.
Hope you Sydney locals enjoyed the quiet weekend there, but they're on their way back..

I followed the crowds and went up blowins way - couldn't resist. Early bird got the worm on Saturday on a particular headland followed by some great (albeit crowded) sessions in the few spots out of the wind. It was crazy how quickly it dropped off Sunday - went from a crowd of 40 to 2 out when I left.

Overall the vibe between locals and blowins seemed pretty welcoming, although wasn't in town for most of it. Out of all the groups you mention there tube I reckon the p-plate jacked up Hilux crew are the worst for it, makes my blood boil when you see em pull doughies in the campsite and trash it to bits - unforgivable really.

Anyway hope I managed to keep a low profile during my stay and thanks to the local crew for sharing a few with us lockdown folk looking to reconnect with some beautiful and familiar stretches of coastline.

Nice work Mcface!

Mcface wrote:

I followed the crowds and went up blowins way - couldn't resist. Early bird got the worm on Saturday on a particular headland followed by some great (albeit crowded) sessions in the few spots out of the wind. It was crazy how quickly it dropped off Sunday - went from a crowd of 40 to 2 out when I left.

Overall the vibe between locals and blowins seemed pretty welcoming, although wasn't in town for most of it. Out of all the groups you mention there tube I reckon the p-plate jacked up Hilux crew are the worst for it, makes my blood boil when you see em pull doughies in the campsite and trash it to bits - unforgivable really.

Anyway hope I managed to keep a low profile during my stay and thanks to the local crew for sharing a few with us lockdown folk looking to reconnect with some beautiful and familiar stretches of coastline.

Good on you. Pretty shit conditions for you but stoked you got something.

I don’t understand how P platers can afford Hiluxes? Let alone all the fruit they’ve bolted on. My friends and myself had proper, proper cheap pieces of shit on our Ps.

Totally, my first car was about 1.5k, and cars after that not much more. Would never be able to afford anything close to what kids are driving these days.

Yeah I don't get it either. These kids have more upgrades than the car is worth. Doesn't look like mum and dad are helping them out but I could be wrong.

Apprentices etc with big loans??

Lots of cash-outs from parents around here for the p-plater to get the tricked up 4WD