It's nearly 9am, I'm sitting on Marine Pde waiting for a meeting, it's raining, 8-12kts on the wind meter with a gust up to 18kts and the temp on the car dash is 21 degrees - maybe later....
Typical.
Windy enough to blow a dog off it's chain at the Seaway, whilst barely a gentle zephyr at the southern end of the coast.
I can see myself getting dragged up to Shearwater tomorrow whether I like it or not.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!
never mind...it only took me 5 years to work out why they hold the outdoor art expo, best smoke ring, peanut stacking and card house building competitions at currumbin ![]()
Just had a look at Currumbin at lunchtime. Looked like there was a lot more wind out the front than showing on the Coolie graph, BUT a massive sweep.
There were a couple of Irish backpackers surfing, who the sweep was taking far out to sea in a north-easterly direction at a great rate of knots. They were being rescued by the lifeguards on a jet-ski.
I saw them drift a good few hundred meters in about 10 mins. Another few minutes and they would have been conpletely out of sight.
Not a good place to hang about if the wind dropped on this wind and tide.
Made a huge card castle today for two hours. I hope the wind doesn't come through tonight and blow it over.
Currumbin will definately be ON tomorrow while I work!!
Cool pics, haircut. I didn't realise you were taking shots yesterday. I was gonna see if you wanted a blast on that board, but you had left when I came in.
I got way overpowered at the end. I checked the graph last night and it was showing 33kts at that time, so no wonder.
I'm liking that new board a lot, might get out at Kirra/Tugun today on it.
I'm still gybing like crap though. Getting a littel better, but need way more practice.