no photos no surf no trip no nothing.

I’m back home now, 6 hours up on Thursday and 6 hours back today.

The Saturday comp day was the only bad day, the comp had the only wave for miles so I never got in the water but the rest was excellent and having a surf with BB & Lfish was great.

Went in with BB this morning early and no sooner had I paddled out when BB called me into a good’n. It turned out to be the best one I got this morning so I considered myself lucky that BBs not a greedy bloke.

I never got the chance to take the 10’ Miske out but having BB ride it in the comp and endorsing its ability made me feel good. Now I know it’s me and not the board.

I really lucked out with my decision to take the 10’6” Mickey Munoz, it was perfect for arra with its fullish outer break. For the first time in my life I was up with the wave count.

The only problem being that I had a tendency to stay on far too long because it had so much floatation and it could take me through to the reform, that in itself was not the problem but the paddle back out was.

After day one I got rid of the side bites and just used a bigger centre fin in the hope of cutting down the drag for the paddle. I even resorted to putting the leash between my teeth to cut down on drag while I was going back out.

Here’s a pic of Tom on Saturday styling his way to a prize the following day.






One of the best things I did this time was to take a laptop and a wireless broadband with me.

It can get really boring living in a tent in the rain and you invariably end up at the pub spending a heap of money, getting written off and unable to surf the following day, not to mention the fight I almost got involved in.

On the day I arrived it was far too wet to set up the tent so I stayed at my mates place and we went up the pub for dinner. No sooner had we arrived than a fight broke out, we thought we were a safe distance from it and then all off a sudden they were at our end of the bar and we had to scarper real quick.

As well as keeping me out of the pub, all it would take is about 30 minutes surfing the net and I would find myself dropping off because I was so buggered from all the real surfing.

Just before I left this morning I had a coffee and a real good chin wag with my mate. It turns out that his aunt had a bunch of really old pics from the early days of woopi and he wanted someone to redo them as digital pics.

As coincidence would have it, he got a local photographer called Bob Weeks to bring down all his gear and retake the pics and Bob is an old mate of Lfish from way back in the 50s and 60s in Cronulla, talk about a small world.

If you have issue 67 of Australian Long Boarding there's a feature on Bob's early work.

I though I would post a few of the old woopi pics that Bob reproduced, this is woopi main beach when it still had the long pier for the loading of timber.





I don’t know when the pier was removed or destroyed because when I first went there in 1962 there was only 2 pylons left but I figure this photo of a white pointer on the pier must have been taken in the 50s because the son of the bloke in the picture is only in his late 50s now.





The thing I miss most about woopi is the old pub, it had real character, this is probably from the 30s and shows a bullocky team out the front.

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asea said...

no photos no surf no trip no nothing.

pmsl

Well done obct a lot of effort went into that story and the pics,glad you had some cruisy waves.

So there is a god,THANK YOU so much obct,BEST post EVER.

I'm sorry I don't have any decent pics but a pissy little cam with a 3 x optical zoom is not much chop and we didn't really get together much at night.

Lfish had a slightly better cam with a decent zoom but when he walked out to the point this morning to take a few of me an BB, he found his batteries were flat.

ps. the very last thing I said to BB and Lfish as I said goodbye this morning was, "let's try to do it again next November?"

they both said yes.

So Tom and BB entered the comp? I was thinking your guy's put a team together and was the fight between locals v blowins or two blowins? alway's good to know whats going on at da pubs

Lfish was an entry but because his tent got rained out on Friday night he had to pull out so he could concentrate on saving his gear.

I never had any intention of entering a comp, comps aren't something that interest me a great deal at just about any level.

Dont worry mac - tom and I did our best to keep em honest.

Obct - after you got out this morning it completely glassed off for about an hour - it was beautiful and only 4 of us out - four times I caught "the last one" in but every time I looked back and just had to paddle out again for another in the end I just could not lift my arms to paddle another foot - finally jagged one from out where you were right onto the boat ramp and I didn't even look back - just kept walking home KNACKERED.

I tried to work out how far that paddle is using google earth.

I reckon it's close to 400 metres.

And most of it's a big arc.

More info on this place is required guys,400 metre paddle outs geez,buggered just reading that stuff[}:)]

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Yes mac been there and got lucky with 2to 3ft 4 guys out.true 400m paddle out, a bloke from work has just retired there,lucky bugger.

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asea said...

Yes mac been there and got lucky with 2to 3ft 4 guys out.true 400m paddle out, a bloke from work has just retired there,lucky bugger.

haha,so we have a bed

You're too wild for him mac the caravan park would be a good set upfor you and bundy or BB might allow you and bundy into the penthouse if you behave.

I invested in a good set up three room penthouse with awing I bought it for the club weekends away,I slept in one room the son in the other and I think a Bear was in the next

does your penthouse have skylights as with mine i can watch the rain,hail,etc hit the roof of the penthouse.

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More info on this place is required guys,400 metre paddle outs geez,buggered just reading that stuff[}:)]

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Lfish was intending to get away real early this morning so I guess that once he gets home and unloaded he may have a look at what's on the camera.

I think I'm going to need to change my nic name after that trip, I jumped on the scales this morning and found I had lost over half a stone since Thursday.

I'm sure I'll find it again before the end of this week.

Hey obct - 3ft this morning and pretty clean and had it all to myself. Got about 15 waves from round the corner into the flag - I think the arms must be adjusting cos it hurt like hell on the initial paddleout but felt nothing after that one. SENSATIONAL MORNING.
(Oh yeah - managed to hit the bottom with the fin on a big fade this morning - that woke me up I tell ya )

NO PHOTOS = DID NOT HAPPEN

This spot is kinda like the bermuda triangle - you can take as many photos as you like but when you get home the film is blank the spirits of the point have ways to protect itself from northerners [}:)]

Back to reality after a great few days, on the water that is, my off water wasn't so good, leaky tent & buggered up my comp entry, never mind had some great waves that more than made up for my probs ......
Photo's .......seem to have problems with my camera also, I usually manage to take a few but this time you'll just have to use your imagination...

So the trip didn't happen

The trip did happen but surf was crap weather was crap the whole trip was crap.no photos no happen

Nope We've been at the alley the whole time - SUCKERS

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asea said...

The trip did happen but surf was crap weather was crap the whole trip was crap.no photos no happen

PMSL classic

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billboard said...

Nope We've been at the alley the whole time - SUCKERS

bowling alley

OK.......well I do have a couple of pics that tell a story.....obct went for a surf at woopi main beach.....& he made a friend...
After pulling off a classic move a goat boater seemed to become a close friend......
you know what they say....."never leave your mates behind"......I'll let the pics tell the story...........



I think I saw them exchange phone numbers or email addresses

Now I know why I woke up that morning with 2 bob in my hand and a sore arse

My wife warned me about you lot before I left.

Turn the clock back and would it have been a happy ending


Great to see the boys smiling,it must have been the goaties fault our friend obct would never drop in

Here's a shot Bob Weeks just sent to me