Your most memorable wipe out for 2014
Mine -unless I pull out something special in the next few days pretty sure I can post this now with only a few days to go till 2015 .
penguin reef breaks along the easterly edge of the reef on a northeast swell so on 3/4 to full tide you have the choice to go right with a pretty powerful wave that sits up 2 or 3 times over the reef ,or go left for a long longboard type wave along the edge of the reef ,so me on my SUP and one other on a longboard sitting out on the tip of the reef . A big one rolls in on the horizon old mate says it's yours . I am thinking you beauty if I take off I can beat the wave breaking just to the right of me and rip in over the reef . .
Didnt make it , wave outran me knocked the board straight out from under me as I was cutting across the face - result self inflicted right uppercut to the nose from my top hand on the paddle - broken nose , lots of blood ., luckily no sharks in the water that day .
funniest thing paddled back out to old mate and he says you can go left you know - cracked me up .
to make it worse paddled in about half an hour latter nose busted , not a pretty site , school bus pulls up beside me for a school outing full of school kids - look on some of the faces - priceless .
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