obct said...
No more road trip promised, next time we will have a trip report thread, for better or for worse.

This is a factual account with some holes in it - I shall leave all the humour & stories for obct. Sorry for the lack of decent photos but the GF had the good camera.

It was a long drive north on the Thurs - it pissed down and I was feeling a bit lonely as Prawnhead sms'd to tell me that he was bailing as it was too wet for his setup. I completely understood though. I finally setup tent and just as I finished putting the last peg in it bucketed down again. My luck was turning. I woke up in the morning at 5:30am and moved 5m from my tent to view the early morning conditions.....its was looking pretty good so it was on with the wettie and out there. It was really busy with only 3 of us out for the first hour or so.





It was a nice clean 2 to 3 ft and the sets continued to build through the morning and by lunchtime it was almost 4ft on the bigger ones.

obct and Lfish arrived just as I was finishing my bacon n egg sani washed down with a can of coke. They promptly took to the water and picked a few nice ones.







What was weird though was it felt like a Mactavish convention - it seemed like every second person had one. We decided to snap a few shots for Mac so he was not feeling left out - a fireball and a ufo hanging out together.







I joined them for another session then when I got in Sharpie had arrived after his morning session at Crescent. I had another late session in the day but the wind had got into and the incoming tide did not help so it was no where near as productive as the early sessions. But pretty happy with 2 great surfs and a reasonable one on day one. The good news was though that Sharpie had sorted out the fire and boys were happy as larry - a nice feed of chilli made by obct a few beers and some (as you would expect) classic obct stories that had us all in stitches. I was surprised that I did not wet my pants a few times from all the laughing. He is even more funny in person if possible. He also does about 20 different accents which makes his story telling and jokes even more funny. We all wondered what sort of evening we would have been in for if Chrispy had shown up and gone head to head with obct on the story front It was early to bed for the early session.



The morning dawned and as is typical in most camp sites around this nation most people had drunk themselves stupid so there were not many takers this morning. After spending ages decided what board to take out in the early morning light I took the new stick out for a run and was pleasantly surprised by the size. There was only 4 of us out for the majority of the session with some solid sets coming in. Lfish paddled out to join me just as another couple on longboards did and a 6ft set came through and washed them all in at once breaking a leggie in the process. The poor chick got hammered. Lfish had his board smash his toe which put him out of business as well. I then had it to myself for a while until my arms ran out of juice. Stoked. The new board went well although it feels very tight after the Sweet Potato but its goes great, has loads of speed but seems to lack some drive. I kept getting my feet too far forward as the 6'6" felt massive after surfing a 5'10". Sharpie headed out and ripped it up on his 666 - so I snapped a couple of him when I got in.





There was a bit of natural bird life hanging around the place all weekend. Some of them surfed pretty good to.







Lots of nice waves through the morning session but it was dropping a bit as the morning progressed and the tide went out. obct took off on a screamer over the bubble on his 10'6" and styled it for probably a km down the point. I thought he was going to run me over as he was taking off but he showed great composure to miss me by a few feet







A contented man after all his long rides......I think it was the new wax job he gave his trusty machine before paddling out



Lfish gave me some top tips on shaping a board and obct and sharpie chipped in as well. So maybe that might become my winter project. After looking over the Lfish boards its hard not to be inspired. He makes a nice board.

After all the board talk we thought we had better do some pimping to even up the Mactivish involvement and after noticing that there was some great bbq options floating around we could not resist - just for LL who had the audacity to question my bbq photos the other week - hope these are better LL. I even threw in a fishing table for good measure.











After my second surf and looking at the weather forecast I decided to head off and make my way home as I did not fancy putting all my wet gear away in the morning. I wonder how the others got on as it pissed down most of the way home.

I left with some pleasant thoughts as I was leaving of some good folk and great waves. A top trip. Thanks fellas. We shall be doing this again soon.