MickPC said...

Tux said..

MickPC said..

How much fun does that a frame look

Heaps eh, I'd never considered surfing Jamaica before...they're bloody good surfers too

Love to go to the Caribbean, soup bowls is s'posedly slaters favorite wave

NP JB

....SP that place looks heaps fun...on days smaller than this lol. THis day reminds me of North Point Cowaramup Bay. When you paddle for a wave you have to be fully commited or you will go over the falls. I surfed it for the first time when I was 18 & on a 6'2, first 3 waves I went over the falls. Have to paddle as hard as possible & go no matter what. But then you should really be on a bigger board anyway

MickPC said...
NP JB

....SP that place looks heaps fun...on days smaller than this lol. THis day reminds me of North Point Cowaramup Bay. When you paddle for a wave you have to be fully commited or you will go over the falls. I surfed it for the first time when I was 18 & on a 6'2, first 3 waves I went over the falls. Have to paddle as hard as possible & go no matter what. But then you should really be on a bigger board anyway

I can see the resemblance Mick. Some unbelievable surfing there from the king. He is incredible.

MickPC said...
NP JB

....SP that place looks heaps fun...on days smaller than this lol. THis day reminds me of North Point Cowaramup Bay. When you paddle for a wave you have to be fully commited or you will go over the falls. I surfed it for the first time when I was 18 & on a 6'2, first 3 waves I went over the falls. Have to paddle as hard as possible & go no matter what. But then you should really be on a bigger board anyway

North Point - in a bay - works best is a solid swells and easterlies. It's for those too scared to surf the open ocean breaks that are going off at the same time but 50% bigger. ??

Yeah.

Did I mention I surf neither?

Speaking of going off. 2.5m swell, offshore all day, winds dropped to nothing and I have been home crook. Mate sent me these to rub it in from this morning. It'd be even better now.

Bears is just easy to get a pic post surf.

Great pics, heard people scored over the weekend...unfortunately or fortunately I work most weekends....gonna havta do a trip South soon, way past due

thedrip said..

MickPC said...
Great pics, heard people scored over the weekend...unfortunately or fortunately I work most weekends....gonna havta do a trip South soon, way past due

Grunters!

I only surfed it once years ago. You charger you. Pretty hard on my backhand at the time. Super heavy. I'm a much better surfer now, so surfing it would be easier, but I'm 20 years older and less willing to get flogged. We tow out the back of Grunters a bit. The Gas Bombie too. That's probably the heaviest wave I have surfed.

And yesterday was pretty nice.

I've literally never made a drop on proper Peas too. Surfed it at 6' about ten times and just been flogged.

lol its got some punch & its punched me plenty of times. I reckon you surf places pretty similar in power on the open stretches. Ellenbrook is generally heavier I reckon coz it can be a bit shiftier. I've only towed a 2 foot reefie on the way to your hometown

Yeah Pea break can get sucky, I love that place...we camped there for 3 days about 1990 when there used to be a camp ground you pad $2 each to the ranger & they supplied fire wood. First 2 days were out of control, the bay at Gracetown was fully closing out between the points. Massive swell, full on Westerly. We kept ourselves amused by driving fast over the woop de do's down to peas carpark & sliding down the dunes along the beach sitting on the front of our boards holding the leggy as the reigns. Got some great pressure ding channels from running over vegetation trying to do jumps on our surfboards come sand boards.

Day before we left the wind dropped right out in the arvo. We paddled out a little West of the big sand dune on the Southern end with no vegetation at all. It was non stop out at Pea break, so you couldn't paddle out from there. We got fat mushy lefts towards Peabreak & then paddled into position. Most of the time you would have one chance. Catch a wave & then have to walk back around, rinse/repeat. Probably not even Peas but on the shoulder of it, but it was still barreling. We got some good barrels that arvo, I had a couple I can still recall. A mate got barreled pretty much all the way to the beach.

Funny thing was we only saw 1 person the day before the whole time we were there. Shame that camp ground got canned. Its looked like virgin bush for the last 15 years. Really was about the best location on the coast to stay in winter. Now there's that place 1/2 way down the road that costs an armnleg.

WA = Windy Always

You get used to it bro lol

Mick, biggest barrel I have seen in real life was at Carparks. Two guys paddled out from the corner of the dunes into the middle of the bay. One guy got a 12 foot (yes, true story) pit, came out, then pulled in again and was almost into the corner of the bay before it ate him. The other guy paddled over that set, sat out the back in his lonesome then got annihilated by the next set and washed into the Shorey of Death in front of the stairs. Nobody else hit the water in the hour I was there and the carpark was full. You can imagine how big it was with that. Not one other local paddled out. Me? I went and surfed The Farm.

Port Campbell pics taken with a crappy little 80's instamatic I'd had since a teen. About August '96

Wish I had a digital camera back then. I took like 24 photo's Between Cactus & Apollo Bay on a 3 month trip following the coast.

& out front of the Port, waves were breaking into the jetty where boats were moored.

Yep they are SP - my new stick has them. In fact most of the boards I have had the last few years have had them.

This is pretty good

I'm heading over there next year Mac. A guy I surf with reckons theres a spot called Pops that is also good. I'll just hire out a barge over there.