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apparently the best Perth surf he has every seen

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Created by Indodreaming > 9 months ago, 4 Apr 2013
Indodreaming
379 posts
4 Apr 2013 12:04AM
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Sorry I just have to post this after watching the Kirra footage



Maybe why Perth surfers can get a git grumpy if this is best ever.

Havent surfed in Perth for years but I am sure I got some waves just a bit better than this

Tux
VIC, 3829 posts
4 Apr 2013 8:50AM
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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

Ted the Kiwi
NSW, 14256 posts
4 Apr 2013 9:13AM
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What you complaining about ? That looks like double overhead pits .....if you are on a body board Probably just a young fella who doesn't get out much and it is the best waves he has ever had. A few feet bigger and that would be a lot of fun.

jbshack
WA, 6913 posts
4 Apr 2013 11:39AM
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At least no one was dropping in

Indodreaming
379 posts
4 Apr 2013 1:06PM
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THis video shows for Perth what some type of man made structure can achieve and ties into the sand capture topic.

I think I have picked where it is. If it it where I think it is then quite rare as the waves are normally on the other side of the groyne so must have followed a NW storm

imisneck
8 posts
4 Apr 2013 6:57PM
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south side of the city beach groyne mate. this session looks like sick fun for a lid!

Indodreaming
379 posts
4 Apr 2013 7:42PM
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I was thinking south floreat just because the beach is so close to the end of the groyne. Could not see the city beach groyne and then the shadow of the tower gave it away.

Havent seen it for years but either its a summer northly swell or they are holding the beach a lot more these days.

When the cylone came through they had to rebuild the tower and added more rocks to the side and changed the wave.

Didnt get the sand build up off the end of the groyne as much through the winter.

Only once in my life did I ever see it set up where both south and northside were peeling off mid winter. Must have had the poerfect mix of NW and SW winds.

moohan
WA, 147 posts
4 Apr 2013 9:36PM
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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.

moohan
WA, 147 posts
4 Apr 2013 9:37PM
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Indodreaming said...


Sorry I just have to post this after watching the Kirra footage



Maybe why Perth surfers can get a git grumpy if this is best ever.

Havent surfed in Perth for years but I am sure I got some waves just a bit better than this


Pretty sure it's only a young bloke that filmed it, maybe his experiences are a bit limited ;)

Indodreaming
379 posts
5 Apr 2013 7:35AM
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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
WA, 792 posts
5 Apr 2013 11:29AM
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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...

jbshack
WA, 6913 posts
5 Apr 2013 3:13PM
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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

Woodo
WA, 792 posts
5 Apr 2013 4:38PM
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jbshack said...
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


Yeah mate they had a couple of comps there at night with flood lights (plus the light off the tower) Didn't really take off but.

mocha1
WA, 934 posts
5 Apr 2013 7:30PM
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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........

smicko
WA, 2503 posts
5 Apr 2013 8:17PM
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When night surfs started to get too busy there we'd nip up the road with the work genny and a coupla sets of floodlights and have it to ourself.
One night some twat has paddled out and started hassling and I've just looked at him and asked
"Are you fkn serious?" He's paddled inside again so I paddle in, walk up the rocks and turned the genny off. Instant blackout.
"You ready to stop hassling yet mate?"

Woodo
WA, 792 posts
6 Apr 2013 9:15AM
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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.

Indodreaming
379 posts
6 Apr 2013 11:35AM
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after a howling seabreeze you would wait for the wind to drop in summer.

Surf through the night and often by morning summer eastly had knocked it flat.

Tower lights used to be on a timer and go off about 2am

Then had to wait it out till dawn hopefully for a few more. Sleeping in a damp board bag.

Now thats over 30 years ago but can still remember some epic lefts off the groyne coming at you out of the dark.

And the pissed off fishermen telling you about all the sharks out there.

Hamsta
505 posts
7 Apr 2013 3:11PM
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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

Buster fin
WA, 2597 posts
7 Apr 2013 4:16PM
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^^^^maps please.

Legion
WA, 2222 posts
7 Apr 2013 10:33PM
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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.

Hamsta
505 posts
8 Apr 2013 8:47AM
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Buster fin said...
^^^^maps please.


A southern metropolitan area.



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