Little Windows...

Made the most of a little lunchtime window of less onshore and dribbly waisthigh waves today. The warming water, abundance of little fun waves and sunshine definately made it worth heading out for.

The Westbay at Westbay

Steveo getting his cross-step on

Wait a second. I'm the longboarder should I not be the one practicing this?

Morning Mess...

Was bigger than expected this morning but also alot messier

The odd fun shoulder was still to be had though

North Coast pleasure cruiser

Wobbly rights (pt II) and some afternoon delight....

Afternoon delight

Shared some short frustrating peaks earlier in the week that were very similar to nearly a year ago...

Yours truly. September singlefin loving.

Awog bottom turn

Air Aaron (minus the board)

Another left in context.

Meu amigo peludo

Horse v Adam.

Had a short frustrating session on Monday sharing some super short low tide peaks. Combined with last weeks sketchy session I've been feeling pretty apathetic and lacking a lot of confidence about my surfing. And whilst today my surfing was still far from where I want or where it should be, I began to solely concentrate on what I should be doing when I'm out there. Having Fun. And true enough as I loosened up mentally so too did my surfing. Demonstrating to me once again that most of my frustrations and inabilities are to do with whats going on upstairs rather than underneath my feet.

(Cheers to Ads again for the shots of me and Aaron!)

Unanticipated action...

Didn't expect to see any sort of a pulse in the water this morning

Sweeping up...

'loadsa fun' rights...

Singlefin love

The building clean and glassy conditions turned abit scrappy as the afternoon wore on

Afternoon surf check...

Didn't expect too see much today but was pleasantly surprised by watching a couple of pulses come through when pulling up in the carpark. Wasn't huge but conditions curiously built despite the forecasts and between showers some seriously glassy waves were on offer. The odd set even rumbled through that was big enough to force a couple of serious ice-cream headaches (water strangely seemed alot colder today) and a wee pummeling onto the sandbar!

Small but Sunny...

Theres just something I love about watching people paddle out on their knees

The lineup after we left

Silhouetted right

Post surf snacks...

After the washout at yesterdays North West, it was good to score a few small wans in some unexpected sunshine.

Fieldwork...

Big Al cruising on a big board

Classmates in the foreground, John crusing in the background

Spent yesterday arvo doing fieldwork on East whilst keeping an eye on John and co enjoying the small surf and great weather. I too soon exchanged ranging poles for the quad but found it tough going to catch anything as the tide pushed and the waves got increasingly messy. Props to the young guy who was having a ball on the longboard though!

Sunny Monday

Not much a doing this morning

Went in search elsewhere

Watching the ankle slappers

The occasional wave

After Sunset

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Beautiful day here up North. One of those days where you want to be in the water no matter what the waves. Local was really small and mushy so we went in search elsewhere but didn't find much better. Headed back close to home round sunset for a quick wee sesh with Owen and the boys. Small, glassy, closeout fun!