Paddy, if crabs and cobblers don't worry you too much, you could try Mandurah estuary, can be good fun in an easterly.
Actually I've wondered about "the farm" (just east of bunkers bay). probably not enough swell tomorrow,and I guess the wind would need a touch of north in it otherwise it'd be very dirty, coming over that big hill. Anybody sailed it????
Iv sailed it in an easterly. I was pretty onshore and lightish with a bit of wind swell but if you had a sail like a 5.7 you should be laughing ( i only had a 5.3)In winter i think that it could be good in a N to NW wind as it would be cross/cross offish, might be a bit gusty with the hill but a walk round the bay could fix that up a bit. Maby we will see this winter
Does it break left??? I thought it was only a right hander, and why I thought a easterly would be good. A good chance to get some reverse tack wave sailing.
The farm is pretty much bunkers bay, and its only a beach break but there are usually a few banks around. I have had some wicked surfs there but you need a pretty big swell for it to get working well, thats way a front might be good to sail down there
Must admit it's about 30 years since I surfed it! But I thought it was more of a reef break, perhaps it was reef plus sand banks, but for quite a few years there was a great, peeling right. Take off was a fair way out, right in front of the track down from the main road. Is that still accessable, or is the gate locked?? Would be a long walk with rig from the road.
you are right decrepit but its been a while since i surfed it too there has been alot of developement down that way but we use to park on the road and jump over a few fences through same paddocks and down to the beach to the farm being a reefy outcrop breaking mainly right
About as far west of Dunsbourgh as you can get, without getting your feet wet. Road goes past some beaut spots, (well they used to be, don't know what the developers have done since I was last down that way) Meelup, Eagle Bay, and not to forget one of my favourite breaks, rocky point. Don't fancy sailing there thou!!!
and as you head up to the lighthouse and off the mainroad on unsealed roads is where the action starts other side of the moon and windmills just to name the obvious but with the right conditions opportunities for uncrowded filth waves is endless i have photos of waves ive surfed down there all by myself oh the memories
Guys, it must be a long time indeed since you were near the farm, coz the new Bunkers Bay resort sits right where the track through the farms used to be.
You now have to walk up the beach from a carpark just past the resort.
i sailed yallingup mainbreak on a howling easterly and head high sets! was good fun.. hell fast glassy runs to cape nat, and trying like a mofo to get upwind enough onto the wave. haha
was fun till the wind stopped and i had a swim. ohh and mind the wind shadow areas from that massive hill.
