swell came up yesterday

started out with a crap east 1 foot slop then changed late in the arvo to some nice south lines around 5 to 6 foot
sat on the headland and watched it till dark talking to some old fishos as the break out the back of the bay started to line up

woke up this morning a dawn drove the old land rover to the headland with the heater cranking to check the swell the wind was straight offshore and the swell hand jumpped up to 10 foot with the odd monster set looked slightly bumpy from last nights wind

sat there for 15 mins with the heater still peak reving one of the old fishos walked up to me and said go on get out there the wind will come up soon

so quickly dragged the wetty on and started the long paddle out through the bay then around the island then over a few lumps of swell it looked a bit bigger at water level than from the headland so i paddled way wide of the line up and watched a set unload on the take off about 800m further out wow blood started to pump

ended up getting nailed by some weird wide pushing sets a good test for the old leggie and said to myself thats nothing just dont get caught again

got out to the take off and looked around to get myself lined up with acouple of rocks and a house on the headland check!!!

watched a few nice looking ones crank through and paddled into one
lots of bumps and lumps as i dropped in but got cleaner down the line
rode it for about 400m then kicked out

caught a few more then the wind started to kick in so caught another which turned out to be one of the longest waves ive had out there all the way through past the island and the inside bowl to the flat water of the opening of the bay about 800m then paddled across to the main beach caught a couple of straight hand closeouts went in and walked back up to the bay and the trusty old land rover

past the fisho as i drove home and he gave me the thumbs up by the time his story goes around my sleepy little town by the end of the day it will go like this

that young bloke paddled out the back of fullers rocks on his gonderlier and got barrelled all the way to the beach and kicked out on the sand 3 points down the coast

gotta love those old fishos and there stories they just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger

swell must be nice at the goldy the wind looks good for the points im so coming up soon to hit it one day and have a paddle with some other sup ers gets lonely by myself down here

Drove past the Alley at 9.00am on way to first work commitment and Jacko was out ... about 6ft - 8ft and the only SUP'er out.
Drove back past on the way back up to Southport around 2.00pm about he was still out .... I hate being back from holidays

20 k paddle your a animal dog you wont know yaself in the navara ! i have a 2000 model hilux deisel the thing is the hungriest goddamn pig on feul i ever seen, i just slide my big girl in the try and let about 3ft hanng over tailgate seems to work ok. Off for a surf right now i have a 6 6 " 6 10" and the big kalama .... guess which one i seem to be using most of the time

wind killed it for the early paddle this morning
but im just about to grab my kite crap and hit it
got an old 9m naish from a mate to smash up in the waves so pretty keen to nail a few right handers

brooko the swell is all messed up now
good to see your killin it with the injury come back

angie what does the swell look like up that way
just came back from kiting for about 5 hrs nice cross shore to slight cross offshore around 20 to 25 kt and about 3 foot fast little rights lovely

Great post dogman...Where's the pics..

DJ

just looked at the swell and its cleaned up alot and coming in from the east
looks good for the morning
must be nice conditions for the points up the coast or the goldie