The Search

By mid morning on Friday I would expect a call from Paul.....'knocking off at lunchtime, up for a surf? '...yep...and so after picking up Brenden, we headed south searching for a wave!

Back beach didn't look inviting, so we headed around the headland to Manyana and Cunjurong Point for a look see

 Hamburgers had a little wave protected out of the wind

Green Island

Saturday Morning Search

Kneelo Cove

After looking at Back Beach first, we headed around to our 'kneelo cove' and found it small but offshore and best of all......uncrowded.

as soon as we got out 2 guys came running across the shelf to jump in

Kneelo Cove video below

Sunday Search out at the Lake

Brenden and Eric 'the bolt' Bridges

Peter Flood off the top

The Cuttlefish Test

Slideshow below


A few of the local footboarders enjoying the conditions.

I was here first.....

The local creek at Swan Lake has opened again to the ocean after being closed for a few years

and with this it has shifted tonnes of sand, leaving the natural shelf rock exposed for the firt time many years

On a closer look you can see where people have scribed their names and date into section s of the exposed rock

Various dates and names have been scribed over the years, but none as old as these

Waka 1620.....piss off Jimmy Cook, my family was here first!

Goodbye Winter

Winter had its last blow a couple of weeks back ....Brenden enjoying some winter love!

all pics by Eric 'the bolt' Bridges

Eric pictured below enjoying what was on offer.

Inside Out

The Other Side

I was recently sent these pics of a break that I often had looked at but never ventured out to, a realm that belongs to my 'Lid Riding' mates ....pics by Stork photos

Chappie tow-in below

Inside out above and a empty goes unridden below

Dallas bottom turn

Moth Miller Land

This is Body Boarding below

The Cuttlefish

Finally got some time off work and with a nice east swell rolling in, it was time to give my new kneeboard from Harddartz a run in something better and offshore. Saturday morning and it was a early check out to Wrecky only to find everybody else had the same idea, 20 odd heads bobbing around in a small east swell, so it was off to different lands and somewhere close without driving too many k's looking.

So after a long drive down a bush track we arrived down at the middle carpark not knowing if we made the right call coming here, we were stoked to climb up over the sand dunes to see plenty of swell, offshore winds, banks and best of all....nobody there to share with! Not just been satisfied with what was right in front, Eric spotted a right hander reel off down the beach , so another journey was began, only on foot this time looking for Eric's mystery right hander. We were joined by Paul about 30 minutes later, who couldn't believe we walked all the way down the other end, and he plugged a few pics off before joining us in the water himself.

The dart went great , paddles well and has no problems with holding it's line on the face, sorta like surfing a quad fin , using the rail and not pivoting off its tail as if you were riding a tri fin, plenty of squirt coming from the exhausts as pictured above.Cant wait to get into something with power and thrust to really test the board out....lets see what this weekends forcast brings!

mango smoothie anybody?

A few more Sea Cretures from Harddartz