Never sailed south south @ Special valley. Heard so much good news about it over the years. Somehow I was not working, huge wave forecast, ok wind forecast and can go! Wave forecast was a bit scary at 12 - 18 foot @ 16 seconds++ Anyhow it's meant to have a channel and a bom section so who cares! Sooo re-arrange many domestic commitments and head off @ 8am for the 6 hr drive.

We. Eat dog food for lunch, HJS, and check in at cheap cv park early afternoon in Mt Gambier.Then off we go. My colleague is full of anticipation and excitement but I am so far unusually chilled. We arrive to mast to two swell with a light cross offshore wind! It then becomes very clear to us that we do not know what we are doing.

We have no idea where to launch in this reef infested landscape. This damn channel is as everywhere closing out! What do we do? Get bogged in the uncertainty. Relity on the beach! I distinkly recall a few foul words as I dug my car out while the cranking left handlers moved past 1km out to sea in 20+ knots with glassy conditions in the distance.

A well meaning local turned up and we got out of the boggy mess with low tyres, lots of digging and curses and plenty of sand in the car! Soo then Bondy rigged up - and do did I slowly! Bobby went out (footage pending)... BIG AND SCARY.. Footage will be posted.

He survived just and I went out in what was clearly survival conditions at our megre level. Footage will be posted.

Then - OMG! Footage will be posted!