Razzonater said..






I think we are getting old, had a chat to me mate about this last week, yanchep now has 10-15000 people living between there and 15 minutes south, mullaloo to mindarie has about 20,000 or more if you include 10km inland along there.
Where we would go as kids to 20,s has a local boardriders club with around 50-60 members ( and growing fast) so those waves nowadays are not really worth 45 minutes in a car unless it's midweek and out of covid unemployment.......
If we head south the town of Mandurah had a population of under 5000 until the mid 90,s I'm not sure where you would say Mandurah stops now but from secret harbour to south of Mandurah there is over 25000 people within 10km of the coast likely waaaay more during holidays and weekends.
This means a lot of the day trip or early morning worth the drive spots are effectively written off as they all now have 100 or more locals.
Places I surfed for ever and ever with no more than 4-6 along the beach you can barely get a carpark on the sand since they opened Indian Ocean drive.
This means anyone within 15-20 minute drive from the trigg-Leighton stretch just goes "down the road " and hopes for the best..............

The crowd this morning was well out of hand, it was decent with good waves but just kids in the way, people bailing boards, people calling off others on set waves and going straight.
there was a body boarded out there who dropped in on three or four different people, he was old enough to know better however no one is allowed to shake the little turds up anymore.

In essence we have lost any sense or a quiet place, we have lost every sense of etiquette, and as such people carry that attitude with them when they paddle out everywhere.

This is why down south and up north crew hate long weekends holidays and the like as their bastions or hope and solitude are destroyed then further someone who has been there once, taken there by a friend of a friend takes photos and puts them on insta, Facebook, and anywhere else they can, naming spots and sharing maps.
within a week there are 100-1000 people going to go surf that wave....

We have lost our way

Razzonater said..
Surfed the longboard at Perth's most crowded wave by myself this arvo for a good hour and a half........
100 metres away was thirty people........

jbshack said..






Be sure to share photos and location on Surfing perth

I've got nothing else..

jbshack said..






Be sure to share photos and location on Surfing perth

I've got nothing else..

Razzonater said..
Someone

anyone

today

report

surely

i had work


Ive seen photos

but did anyone get a proper session in

was it shutting down


is there a bank

TimKay said..
Anyone see the fight or beat down in the water this morning.
Some real winners in Perf