Prior to a very accessable car park, this 'Surfing Reserve' was a sanctuary.
Still an amazingly beautiful spot itself but with a ridiculous south end crowd today being true to recent form but alas, take 1 SUP, paddle to the north end and get peelers all to yourself !
Great fun……and no crowd.......the thought of sitting amongst them or surfing knee to waist A's is a no brainer - thank god for an SUP for these sessions.
(If you don't like the pic's, tough.....cause there's some on here that want them and I'm happy to share).
Yep its a beautiful spot & only 2 minutes from my front door. But the Doctor's right the tar road to the new car park has made it very crowded with heaps of aggro.
I don't sup there anymore its not worth the hassel. Its a shame as I have sup'ed there in perfect over head conditions.
actually, i was talkin' about the tar road TO the beach from the highway...
the old dirt track would mud out for weeks after a decent rain and you'd only see the real locals who'd drive out through the mud or take the quarry road (imagine the pounces that pass for youth these days driving their lowered flashy unit stickered doof doof mobiles along a mud track, the place would still be deserted!)
then there'd be us kids who used to ride across the old golf course (where all the blow-in locals in their ridiculous mc mansions now live) up the old quarry road and down to the beach.
not so long ago twenty people out was super crowded....
now there's twenty people out off one bank at six o'clock saturday mornings when its one foot
I thought that the espresso van in the carpark last time was a bit much. Up in the top corner is still pretty uncrowded most of the time. I still love that spot.
When you purchase a block of land or house / land package in 'Shell Cove' which is the McMansion Estate you drive through to gain entry these days, they actually give you a surfboard and lessons as part of the package !
True/
Times have changed and yep, double figures was crowded once. But's that's progress and we are all party to it at some point.