After the drought comes the rain...

Yours truly at a spot he surfed alot in the past week. And shouldn't there be a bit of drop knee there Thombo?

After last weekends mini-mission I was lucky enough to get in the water locally most nights last week. True it was far from being the biggest or most memorable surf I've had but the warm weather and late night sliding gave me my fair share of stoke. Noticed elements of my surfing progress too due to just consistently being in the water. Just need to hold unto it through this next system of northerly winds and drought of decent waves...

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?

Fin Fun...

Moody skies and building swell...

The banks were good and thankfully only got better as the swell got bigger

Arrived fairly this evening hoping that some of the south westerly swell had wrapped round the coast. We arrived to some small perfectly formed peelers which i duly enjoyed leashless on the singlefin. However as the tide pushed and the anticipated swell filled in things became alot more fun, the impending darkness being our only downfall. Aaron was looking really good on his 6'8 tonight too. He had his tail up and was throwing a bit of spray especially when I happened to be paddling back out on the shoulder. Buzzing mate!

Unexpected finless fun...

My first sight of todays swell. Clean, well shaped but not a lot of size to it. Headed round the corner instead to find something a bit bigger.

After an hour or so in the water I foolishly set the board on top of the car forgetting it was blowing pretty hard, resulting the single fin becoming a zero fin complete with a few scratches.

Every clouds got a silver lining though. Turned out that small clean waves are perfect for a couple of hours of finless fun...

Fun on the Fish

Same spot, same boards, same Aaron, different day.

Got a few fun waves with Aaron before dark yesterday. Was well worth the walk. Celebrated our first win of the season (6-1!) and the exam results after. All in all. It was one fine day!