summer is officially here
(from a surfers perspective)

PaddlePig said...

doggie said...

byf said...
Yeah mate. Out near Bonneys is what i heard on the way back from south this morning. Good luck to them. Hope it comes about.

Same, I miss cables so much!

I don't miss them that much. they were too expensive. Way too expensive. Back in the day (when things were all cheaper) it was around $25 - 30 an hour. Back then that would have bought HEAPS of fuel for the boat. It was a joke. With the exception of learning how to foot, I don't think it is all it cracked up to be.

Huh!! When it closed it was $20 per hour, I used to go when ever the surf was flat or I was bored.
I always thought that $20 was resonable enough. My mate boat used much more fuel than that for an hour of skiing.
But it was convenience of it all. Rock up ski go home.

swalkington said...
^^^^
the water slides were the go too

And always fun going over the jump on the skurf type boards with the fins.

GPA said...
Geez Louise! Inconsistent 1ft close-outs at Trigg - and 18 crew sitting on the main bank at 2nds waiting for them...

Not sure if it will improve with the rising tide and (hopefully) dropping wind...

At least the weeds gone GPA

I think summer is here

First time down in a while, huh?

I was lucky enough to be working by the sea today. I don't mind it so much when there's bugger all surf when I can't hit it.

newguy said...

Buster fin said...
First time down in a while, huh?

I was lucky enough to be working by the sea today. I don't mind it so much when there's bugger all surf when I can't hit it.

Yeah mate, atleast locally. Was down south at a pumping beach break then returned to this! If only we had summer swell. Decent job to be in the ocean all day, how's your wave count been these days?

Not good. And not looking good.

Perth beachies: small, fat and wind now in from west...
But I guess we could expect that, just livin in hope

^^^
Thanks for sharing Suba...

Some nice footage there : )

I remember being blown away watching a stick from Esperance paddling in on a draining 6-8 foot day there around 2002?, first time I saw a surfer having a crack at it. He was air dropping and getting blasted on most of them, pretty sure he spent a fair bit of time standing on the ledge copping sets, but he had us hooting. Ballsy effort. Couldn't have been that long after Tom Innes broke his femur out there? Don't even want to think about the paddle in, negotiating the urchin ledge and getting up the cliff with an injury like that.

Severely unimpressed how close they were getting to the paddle-in boogers, particularly on one wave.

The boogers were out there with them. They're all mates.

I was at a 'poultry' (is that secret enough?) left break at the rock and saw two sups paddle over over from a big boat. They sat out the back paddling like kooks, no idea this small wave really lifts up. Then... MUNCH!!! They got chomped. Like seriously, I thought they were dead!! Then they went back to the boat.

doggie said...

PaddlePig said...
I was at a 'poultry' (is that secret enough?) left break at the rock and saw two sups paddle over over from a big boat. They sat out the back paddling like kooks, no idea this small wave really lifts up. Then... MUNCH!!! They got chomped. Like seriously, I thought they were dead!! Then they went back to the boat.

Not a SUP wave is it

A mate dropped in once on his first wave of a week over there. First wave then rushed him to hospital, then of the Island