B'ambi is a haunt of mine when the wind's from the south and it can be good, can be crowded, can be soft BUT can be fun.

It'll be crowded with loggers being Sunday and you'll have some interest from the small crew of SUP riders down there so it'll be an interesting morning.

Let's hope a sneaky little NE pulse pushes in so 'cutback alley' can come alive.....I can't surf as I have Dad duties from 11am but will drop down and give a hand for sure.

And BTW, the quickest trip is down the F6, down Bulli Pass, left at the Shell Service Station at Bulli / Woonona onto the 'Northern Distributor' which is the single lane entry to the new Freeway extension (opened last week), left into Bellambi Lane, over the railway line, right at the end of the lane where the school is in front of you, and scoot around the school by going first left, to the end at the T intersection, left and then right at the roundabout being the back of the school, follow it through the housing commission mess and left into 'Robert Cram Drive' and it's in front of you at the left where the road meets the sea.....hope that makes sense.

(Careful of the speed camera outside the Bulli Greyhound Track / Bowling Club on the Princes Highway just past the turnoff to Sandon Point where the church is at Point St).

Here's some recent images from B'ambi and an overview of it from the escarpment above.

Got it!

Bugger that stuffs me up .......as I had pre organised plans for after the event .

Boylos

Was struggling to make cronulla.... dont think i can make this one... just a little too far... need to be back at Manly for 1pm! :S

goatman said...

Homeally said...

Was struggling to make cronulla.... dont think i can make this one... just a little too far... need to be back at Manly for 1pm! :S

I'm in a similar boat........

Any chance we can stick with the original start time? I can get there at 7am to set up?

yeah original start time would be good!!

Casso said...

OK, how about this then...

You can register from 7:00 am at Bellambi, as soon as we get enough entries we will start putting heats in the water. Don't worry if you can't get there early, we will still keep the cut off for the surf comp entries as 9:00am - you'll just be in one of the later heats. We should get all the surfing knocked over by about 10:30am (I would think).

Race entries will be open until 5 mins before the race - probably about 11:00am.

If you can get there early, please do so.

If you get there later and there is nobody at Bellambi - just drive around the point to East Corrimal as we could be on that punchy beach break instead (depends on wind and swell direction).

The schedule might look something like this now:

- 7:00 am - Setup, competition entries accepted
- 7:30 am - Round one of surfing competition starts
- 9:00 am - Cut off for surfing competition entries
- 9:30 am - Round two of surfing competition starts
- 10:15 am - Final of surfing competition starts
- 10:45 am - Women and junior divisions paddle race starts
- 11:00 am - Open division paddle race starts
- 11:30 pm - Presentation

Mate that sounds perfect!! cya there!!

Whens your next one. Might come over. Looks like a fun day. Qantas owe me too...

Hattrick is as good as gone! I got the secret weapon...............

C U There,

JB

Here's a pic of our new SUP surfing master, Ben Apps, wearing the coveted 'jacket'. In the background you will also see our 'paddling machine' Stuart Murray. Sorry about the low res, but all our photographers were on other assignments this weekend so this one is taken with my iphone!

Great day, thanks Casso!

What a great day. Awesome weather, great waves and fantastic group of people sharing the stoke and a bit of competition. We descended upon a really nice little reef/beach break peak and pretty much had it to ourselves for the duration of the day. Punchy lefts and rights in a semi-secluded, semi secret part of the coal coast. A great bunch of locals (some of whom don’t even SUP) allowed us to use one of their “spare” peaks which proved to be a great contest arena.

Standouts in the surf were local boys Scott Downing and Ben Apps who read the conditions extremely well and ripped the waves apart. Very unlucky not to progress out of the first round were Chris Hughes, Roger Peters and Jeremy Corne with some massive turns that were just not quite enough against the red hot field. Great effort by Wayne Morris for getting out there and mixing it up with some of the best SUP surfers in the state after only being in the surf a hand-full of times before.

The short distance paddle race was once again hotly contested and great fun. First place was a sure thing, right from the starter’s gun, with Stuart Murray winning convincingly on his C4 HoloHolo. Second place also seemed a certainty with Rob Gittoes leading the chase pack the whole length of the course only to miss a set wave on the way back in which, heart-breakingly, bumped him to fifth.
Thanks to everyone who made the trek down the coast and for helping make it such a great event #3.

Surf Comp Results:
1 - Ben (Appsy) Apps
2 - Andrew (Casso) Cassidy
3 - John (Goatman) Christensen
4 - Rob Gittoes
5 - Andre Domin
6 - John (JB) Messenger

Paddle Race Results:
1 - Stuart (Suplove) Murray
2 - Brendan Dews
3 - Andrew (Casso) Cassidy
4 - Paul LaGanza
5 - Rob Gittoes
6 - Scott Downing
7 - Mel (JB Mel) McManus
8 - Malcom Warren

Special Prize Awards:
Kialoa: Best Sports Person - Brendan Dews
Seabreeze: Best Single Wave - Andre Domin
Suplove: Most Improved - Diane Clasby
Honolua Surf Co: Stylemaster - Rob Gittoes
XCEL: Biggest Single Manoeuvre - Scott Downing
BiCSURF: Person Having the Most Fun - Steve Morrison
OXBOW Surfboards: Best Wipeout - Jason (Jack Mack) McManus

When is the next one?

Was a great day! Good to see everyone there, but where were the usual hordes of photographers?

Thanks again to Casso for all your work as club president (and of course to Goatman as vice president! )

Seemed a bit of agro going round down there from some of the locals.......

Just wanted to give a quick shout out to all those guys who came down for the event.

Thanks for respecting the local request of not surfing the point. It showed alot of respect to the locals who can only surf the favorite point on the weekends. It was good to see everyone sticking close to the contest break, so no one got any bad vibes. The sport of SUP is still pretty new down here and is slowly being accepted. It helps though when some of the locals turned out and particpated and we all had fun. espically now that Im styling in the winners jacket, I may even wear it to my engagement party. hahaha

Once again thankyou and Ill see you all soon,

Appsy

goatman said...

Didn't seem to be any directed at any of the SUP crew on the day that I heard of. We pretty much had the beach break to ourselves.