I had two great downwinders in the northerlies of the last 2 days... glad to get a day of rest !

What is it with the wind forecasts at the moment? Friday, I don't think there was any real wind predicted - went to have a lazy paddle downbreeze, but ended up with epic blast down the coast. Yesterday, I couldn't sleep half the night thinking about the 25 knots predicted early for saturday morning (seabreeze, willyweather, buoyweather all saying the same thing) and over 30 in the arvo (two runs... cool!). It ends up being 5kt offshore till lunchtime - never thought I'd complain about that . Then the wind picks up, seabreeze says its 15kt gusts, but it was blowing a lot, lot harder than that.

Here's the video of yesterday. It was pretty hard work as my route was basically convex around the headlands - so had to haul it to get out past the first one with lots of side wind, then really bouncy conditions with waves reflecting off the headlands, but didn't want to get to buggered paddling out further as I knew the winds were going to be offshore later in the run. Which they were... at this stage there were some great runners pushing out to sea, but I had to ignore those. I found I was having to do a fair bit of navigating to get a good line, and it was 50/50 whether to land on the beach or sneak around into the river and paddle against the tide. As it turned out, I got straight to where I wanted without any dramas, but something I'll always be wary of.

Some of the runners were really great - I didn't get some of the best ones on the video as the gopro got folded down when I pearled on the first one and I didn't fix it up for while. For some reason, I can't seem to tighten up my gopro mount enough these days to stop that happening - anybody have this problem? All the water drops are because I got some sunscreen on the lens - the old lick and wipe doesn't work so well then - I'll have give it a good wash.