19 September 2009 (Black Rock and "Rocky Rights")

K2 buoy has been showing an increase in swell but throughout the morning it had been RUBBISH... just very weak front-edge swell with no sign of the real groundswell showing. Mark had put in the train miles again (and handed over another small fortune to the rail company coughers) in his quest to get out of the big smoke and into the water so it was time to "take a punt" and drive to a currently flat to tiny beach in the hope that swell would "arrive"............ and arrive it did. We got lucky (or reaped the benefits of some absolutely superb surf forecasting ... which ever way you want to look at it!) and surfed a good 3hrs first and Black Rock and then for a great hour (with only 4 out) at the rocky right hand reef area to the west of Widemouth..... no idea if it has a name but i'm calling it "Rocky Rights" for blog-purposes. It was great fun out there and we surfed til sunset before heading to the local pub for a well earned pint of ale and some ham, egg 'n chips. A great day. Mark's new found confidence in the water is "looking good" and even though he did pull off the "drop-in of the century" on me out there (ha ha) .... it's great to see him paddling hard for waves over rocks and catching some goooooodens. Nice one mate. But remember "one mistake and you out" (in Spanish pidgeon English!!!) ha ha ha :0)

Surf Wagon Update (she's a beeeeeeeeeauty !)

Unfortunately with 176,500 surf miles on the clock on the trusty Mitsubishi Colt it was time to dig very deep into the pockets and send my trusty pal up into Scrappage Heaven (R.I.P). I actually do feel quite bad about it but im sure she's putting in the miles up there travelling to various heavenly point breaks :-). On the up-side, I do now have a god-damn-unbelievably good surf wagon replacement (here she is!!!) - with just 12 miles on the clock (from the showroom to home! :o) )

With more luxury and gadgets than you can shake a stick at this thing really does make the journey as well as the destination an absolute pleasure!

6 September 2009 Update...

No pics again unfortunately of this one but met up with Mark, Roz and Jez to surf small but fun Puts. Pretty big tide resulting in great looking but slow waves - lots of hard paddling to get into them but there were some decent rides out there and it was a really nice day. Good to get a few people out in the water again. Mark has gone back to surfing his very old Surfers Paradise board which seems to suit him a lot better that than the GRUB which, while it looks the business, is build for heavy Margaret River main break macking waves. Good call going back to the old one I reckon.