You know the one I am talking about, the one off the NSW coast. Is it ok for longboarding or purely a short board wave? Also, how safe is parking at the reserve nearby? I've heard the Aboriginal community down the road are "rich" over the stuff they've stolen from cars parked there, and the local cop doesn't give a stuff.

Even when it's small it is not a long board wave.
Unless you are Beau Young, get yourself a down the line pocket rocket. Over the years have surfed it many times and it is one of my faves in Oz, especially when the right is working.

Not a longboard wave as said Mr Tall and blowy.

The indigenous community there are decent people, with a few hot surfers amongst them in my day. I am sure the young guys are hotter nowadays.

As far as theft goes I don't think it would be any different to most out of the way car parks anywhere on the coast in NSW, just because it has an indigenous community nearby doesn't make it somewhere that is worse than others.

I have had my car broken into more times in Cronulla than I ever did on the South. Coast.

There are some good longboard waves nearby.

Seek and you will find.

ET.

Never surfed there, but I got warned off going there by some locals 18 months ago. I got told I wouldn't be welcome and there was a good chance my car would be vandalised. There's heaps of other waves around there so I surfed them instead. The area is thick with quality.

Aust, NZ, Indo, States - loads of places. Even the main stream media still like to cover them occasionally. This has been an interesting read the last 10 months or so

www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/may/18/california-surf-wars-lunada-bay-localism-surfing

www.theinertia.com/surf/palos-verdes-police-respond-to-lunada-bay-localism/

Ted the Kiwi said...
Aust, NZ, Indo, States - loads of places. Even the main stream media still like to cover them occasionally. This has been an interesting read the last 10 months or so

www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/may/18/california-surf-wars-lunada-bay-localism-surfing

www.theinertia.com/surf/palos-verdes-police-respond-to-lunada-bay-localism/

Crazy!

Must suck to only ever surf the one beach all the time ;)

smh said...

thedrip said...
Ask the bra boys why they don't hit Cyclops anymore. Lol. Apparently they ain't so scary away from all their mates. Sometimes localism is aimed at the most deserving.

thats good to know .

The best part of the story was that it wasn't them hitting Cyclops that annoyed the locals (like most of us, they were of the opinion they were welcome to it), but rather their behaviour at the local beachies before or after the swell.

I have also seen the same locals stand in front of a mates missus and tell her photos weren't allowed of that wave very politely. I have also seen them grab boards out of guys hands and say "You are welcome to surf here a mate, but don't bring four" and put the boards back into the covers. It wasn't quite so polite then.

So when I got warned off Aussie Pipe, I didn't bother questioning or arguing.

I loved that clip from California that was embedded in the article.