Yeah it does...I surfed Cott groyne once rifling left handers from outside the groyne to the beach past the bell thing...apparently it happens about once every 10 years.....Scarbs and Trigg have there moments as well...its just the crowds that **** it most of the time

At least no one was dropping in

south side of the city beach groyne mate. this session looks like sick fun for a lid!

Tux said...
Yeah it does...I surfed Cott groyne once rifling left handers from outside the groyne to the beach past the bell thing...apparently it happens about once every 10 years.....Scarbs and Trigg have there moments as well...its just the crowds that **** it most of the time

Surfed it like that a few times as a teenager during the late 90's, haven't seen it do that for a long time though. That said, I don't usually check Cott anymore so maybe it still happens.

Yeah sorry may have come across as sounding harsh.

I would have been frothing at that age about waves like that.

I remember an early at Floreat (80s) with only three of us out. Mate and I and a local charger. In the days of the old layback which this guy had mastered.

My efforts werent so good as I would often end up going over the falls with board sitting at the back of my legs.

Thank god for the pig dog is all I can say.

Anyway the waves were a reverse of that with a bit more length.

Woodo said...
Looks like good fun too me.

Surfed it heaps back in the 90's as well and had it absolutely firing heaps of times. Both left and right.
Rides from out in front of the groyne all the way down to past the clubbie building on the lefts. Was the best from about midnight til dawn. No one out, rides til you were out of the light. Just had to try and ignore any dark shadows that you saw in the water.
Havent seen it like that for a long time now but i'm sure it would still have it's day if you know when to hit it...

Didn't they used to have lights for night surfing or they experimented with it once? I cant 100% remember but it seems familiar

Had some smoking night surfs there. Climb the tower adjust the lights, no one out but ya mates!!! No thoughts of sharks back then, they were much better behaved plus as a you gun I was immortal

Like surfing stoned until ya got ya night vision working......3 hrs surfing then off to Happy Granny's to fill up, eyes red as f..k, like you was stoned........maybe was cant merember!!


Glory Days they' ll pass you by........

Ha Mocha same. Climb up before and adjust the light. I know for a fact I was ripped as **** but. It use to be epic.
How was it sitting out the back waiting for a set just staring into darkness trying to scope out a shape.
I remember when the sand use to bank right up against the groyne on the north side to a point where after a wave it was quicker to run back up the beach and back out on the sand alongside the groyne. You could practically jump straight back into the takeoff zone.

There is a groyne in the 'metropolitan area' that I have been lucky enough to score absolutely firing many many years ago. For two days this place produced an awesome right hand wedge, awesome by anyones standards, with myself and 2 friends out and a couple of local guys who were in the know. I have never heard nor read about anyone else getting a decent session at this place as it is probably incredibly fickle and requires a trully thumping swell (7m+ at Rotto). We went to surf another much more well known wave and decided to reco this place in order to see if the swell would refract off it and were frothing when it was and waaaaaayyyyyyy better than we had imagined. Such a heavy wave as well, just right hand wedge that started by draining off the end of a small groyne with a slight SW aspect and grew into a punchy right hander. It is obvious yet secreted away at the same time not far from some other very popular waves. We nicknamed it Goats

Surfed it last spring for the first time ever. Driven past many times and it's never been worth it, but it was that day. Definitely a major novelty wave.