I'm heading down there for xmas, just wondering are there any decent spots down that way that work in summer?

DL said...

There are heaps of spots if you have a 4WD

Yeah thats what I heard.. bummer.

Zed said...

I'm heading down there for xmas, just wondering are there any decent spots down that way that work in summer?

Yes, yes and yes. Salmon Holes Beach is beautiful. Ask at one of the surf shops in Albany. It's a bit of a walk around from the car park but well worth it.
I lived in Albany for 5 years and this was my favourite spot...beautiful and great waves during Summer.

NO EVERYONE, THERE IS,NT ANY WAVES AROUND ALBANY OR SOUTH OF PERTH FOR THAT MATTER. ACTUALLY WA IS FLAT FULL STOP SO I REQUEST EVERYBODY GIVE UP THE RIGHT TO ASK OR DISCUSS ANY SPOTS YOU CANT FIND BY YOUR SELF ON THIS FORUM FROM NOW, STARTING NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


ANY BODY WHO CANT ALLIGN WITH THIS PLEASE PM ME TO RECIEVE YOUR PRIZE!

MERRY CHRISTMAS[}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)]

i disagree, with fuel prices pushing 1.50 a litre i concur that asking of good spots that arent in your local area is a f***** great idea to get some good foreign waves.

unlike some of the yob's i see down in bunker bay driving BMW x5's and such we cannot afford to be looking around our fantastic coastline, of which i have spent a few years travelling and exploring in year passed.

if someone you can contact for free knows where i can surf when i go away... i think il do it

BUT... if you have a boat .. i am jealous, i cannot find a wave worth paddling out to lately

haha funny you should say that kearnsy - i wouldnt mind so much if some bums pulled up on my grass.. i would feel some empathy for them - as it was only a few years ago i was the bum on someone elses grass because it was so nice.
i lived the life of a true adolescent, loitering around area's where grass was both green and plentiful!
but these days i manage to live in a beautiful home .. anyone can improve and travelling was where i learned that you can do anything if you truly want to.

the boat reference was a gag though hehe sorry.. i am still out there trying it was more an attempt to slur at the current wave crisis perth finds itself in. I have only lived here for 2 years but something about this summer seems particularly flat and lifeless.. as I cruise passed leighton, cott, scarbs every morning on my way to work the sea is limp and pathetic.. a constant reminder that the ocean breathes and moves... but occasionally 'dies'

its all good, im surfing mandurah friday .. down south on the weekend perhaps and got a good lineup on monday tuesday organised. hopefully the early mornings arent too rough :) g'luck to everyone with their surfing and i hope one day i will ask you for a good spot kearnsy mate.

"if you cant be good, be good at it"

Surfed Mutton Bird Island near Albany once, had some good waves and I was the only one out.

Loner said...

About as close as you'll get to a real right hand point break in W.A.

You'd be surprised how many right hand point breaks there are on the south coast.

Accessibility is the main problem though.

DL said...

Loner said...

About as close as you'll get to a real right hand point break in W.A.

You'd be surprised how many right hand point breaks there are on the south coast.

Accessibility is the main problem though.

True ? They tell me Blacks Point is apparently a right hand point ?
Do you know if that's right ?

also, Google Earth can be your enemy.

take Bremer Bay, for example: www.google.com.au:443/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode&q=no+point+breaks+here&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=0&ll=-34.395286,119.403695&spn=0.00641,0.01133&z=17

From the map, it would look like there would be a right-hand point break here...

Well, I can pretty much guarantee that if you took the 8 hour drive from Perth with the expectation of finding a Noosa Heads type wave, you would be sorely disappointed to say the least.

heh, sort of

It's surprising really, how a headland on the east coast almost guarantees a point break, but around Albany similar looking headlands almost never produce a point break. I think the water is goes too deep too quickly around Albany, so the waves don't really wrap up against the points.

Have you tried windsurfing?

I took it up a year ago so I had something to do in summer in Perth.

It rules.

Imagine the power when you bottom turn on a bowly 6' wave.

That's what it's like when you are windsurfing, except instead of being confined to the face of the wave, the whole ocean is your skatepark.

if you new the right ppl, u mite get the coordinates for clops. [}:)][}:)][}:)]