Cold wind. Warm water.

Morning Thom...

Easkey left

Raging I lost focus abit...

Nice lines...

Kieran enjoying the view...

Really struggled to get to will myself into my cold, damp wetsuit this morning. So I went and took a few shots as means of motivation. Pity my philosophy was a tad flawed. Turned out being in the water was a heck of load warmer than taking photos of it. Some nice waves today though, but the crazy rip, super shifty peaks and struggle adapting between longboard and fish, meant after an hour or so I headed down the road to catch something a little bit more user friendly...

Worth waking up for...

Early peeler

The battle of the 6'2's. Aarons new stick on the left and the trusty fish.

As with the past few nights, it got better as the tide pushed

Not massive but clean, offshore and the sun even made an appearance. Loads of fun.

Peak a Boo

Beach life and the Man Utd youth team training for the milk cup.

Aaron and I made the resolution to have one last pre-work dawny before I quit Tesco at the end of the week. It hasn't happened since I've been keeping confessions but in the past couple of summers Aaron and I were pretty regular dawn patrollees, buzzing to get a surf in before returning to the real world. Thankfully today sentiment paid off and last nights pretty lumpy surf turned into slightly smaller clean offshore peaks up and down the beach. Had a wee bash on Big A's new 6'2 aswell and was impressed by how easily it caught waves despite being nearly an inch thinner than the fish. Its getting my confidence up to get back on my quad again!

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...

Blinded by the offshores...

Another one from yesterday

Made sure I had the board with me today. Swell seemed a bit smaller than yesterday and the weather was lot more changeable. Didn't really make the most of it to be honest though. I seemed to spend most of the time chasing waves or being caught inside. Was damn nice feeling the glide of the singlefin again on the couple of i did get though. !