who's up for it?

Why is it death on a stick? not even 40 knots!

Or are you worried about lightning strike Friday?

perfect for the 7, get in there!!! some one please take some pics :D

Photos please

Where is best place and time for me to take pics, live near Pt Walter - love catching the flying folk

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Plummet said..
Why is it death on a stick? not even 40 knots!

Or are you worried about lightning strike Friday?

Looks like 10m weather to me.

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Riverlane said..
Where is best place and time for me to take pics, live near Pt Walter - love catching the flying folk

Gnaraloo in Oct or Coronation in Dec when there are no kiters in the way

Pt Walter.... sheesh - core AF

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Riverlane said..
Where is best place and time for me to take pics, live near Pt Walter - love catching the flying folk

Your best bet is the groin at Woodies, there will be some flat water behind the Carpark and the guys will having fun with all sorts of loops n tricks..

You can expect Gusts to 50 -55knots in this type of weather.
Get the carnage ;)

Dunno why you'd be looking for flat water when there is 4m of swell coming... kinda like ice skating on a pond when there is 15ft of fresh powder in the mountains!

Your so hard core, could you send me your autograph?

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Gazuki said..
Your so hard core, could you send me your autograph?

No freebies, but you are welcome to bid on the signed photos on eBay with everybody else...

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jackforbes said..
Dunno why you'd be looking for flat water when there is 4m of swell coming... kinda like ice skating on a pond when there is 15ft of fresh powder in the mountains!

Hmmm I guess you don't know what rolls paste the end of the flat water groin..
I guess you also dunno how much more exciting it would be for an amateur photographer to stand 'right behind' someone pulling a late Megaloop backroll, rather than a few hundred meters away.

If you have a better recommendation for the 'amateur photographer' - please enlighten us..

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SaveTheWhales said..

jackforbes said..
Dunno why you'd be looking for flat water when there is 4m of swell coming... kinda like ice skating on a pond when there is 15ft of fresh powder in the mountains!

Hmmm I guess you don't know what rolls paste the end of the flat water groin..
I guess you also dunno how much more exciting it would be for an amateur photographer to stand 'right behind' someone pulling a late Megaloop backroll, rather than a few hundred meters away.

If you have a better recommendation for the 'amateur photographer' - please enlighten us..

wasn't making recommendations on photo locations, was just taking the piss out of people who ride flat water... i thought we were still allowed to do that. my bad!

How was it?

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Gazuki said..
How was it?

Mostly close outs all down the coast, not too photogenic...

First session with new 4.5ft board, a heap of fun!

saw a couple of people at Dutchies, anyone else get out?

I checked cott about 2 it was nuking and large waves ( for Perth), the wind was very gusty and onshore quite dodgy conditions. I only had 7m and strapless surfboard and would have been way too overpowered so got the twinny and went to woodies.

Woodies was squally and hectic with big gusts and rain coming in sideways. There was some good flat water behind the rock wall and a few crew on it with some good boosting and loops going down. A couple guys got into a bit of trouble and 2 kites were ditched from the offshore side of the point (separate instances). The riders were fine but unlikely they will get there kites back.

Yeah I'm out at work but I was watching it through swellnet, looked pretty straight.

Was the artificial reef working? I scored that last year with similar conditions. Very rare but you get lucky sometimes.

FAARKK

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Gazuki said..
Yeah I'm out at work but I was watching it through swellnet, looked pretty straight.

Was the artificial reef working? I scored that last year with similar conditions. Very rare but you get lucky sometimes.

Yeah I went early arvo and the artificial reef wasn't throwing up anything (had the same theory and drove down for that reason).

hope this Scarborough artificial reef gets off the ground, it wouldn't take much to get some amazing winter waves for both surfing and kiting...

There used to be a natural reef at Scarborough years ago. I got talking to the picture framing guy on Scab Beach Rd (near Bonnys shop) I was looking at the old photos and the guy pointed out that there used to be a reef similar to Trigg Is but they blew it up with dynamite. IDIOTS!! Imagine how good that would have been. In the photo he show me it showed heaps of good banks, little bays up the coast as a result.

I didn't know there was once a reef at scarbs! It seems an odd move to blow it up.

Any sort of artificial reef at Scarborough would be a big improvement. They wouldn't really need to make the reef itself a good wave but if they put in a couple bombies about 500m out it would break up the swell and make the waves break further out. I reckon if they put one out in front of Scarborough and 1 or 2 further south it would be a vast improvement from the straight hander shorebreak that is there 99% of the time.

I had a cracking wave kiting session at the Leighton artificial reef a couple years back, I have kited it many times since then but never really had it good again, it is elusive for sure.

Please please please!! Where do we sign up to vote/petition for this thing to go ahead

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Youngbreezy said..
I checked cott about 2 it was nuking and large waves ( for Perth), the wind was very gusty and onshore quite dodgy conditions. I only had 7m and strapless surfboard and would have been way too overpowered so got the twinny and went to woodies.

Woodies was squally and hectic with big gusts and rain coming in sideways. There was some good flat water behind the rock wall and a few crew on it with some good boosting and loops going down. A couple guys got into a bit of trouble and 2 kites were ditched from the offshore side of the point (separate instances). The riders were fine but unlikely they will get there kites back.

Why did the guys ditch there kites I thought it was an onshore wind on Friday

I didn't witness the exact moment they ditched their kites but they were on the offshore side of the point at woodies, when kiting on the south side of the point ( the carpark at beach 2) in a nw if I you can't make it back upwind your stuffed. One of the guys was on an 8m neo and I think he was too overpowered to get back to the landing

A few of us got some good winds down south...

Yeah nailed the oz highest jump on the piq no biggie!! Love fronty fun weather . Beats the hell out of the weak ass Seabreezes we had all summer.