Surf and Snow

February 3, 2008 on 3:26 pm | In Kayak Surfing |

When most people look at the weather forecast they see northeries and start getting out the winter clothes and complaining of the cold. Here it is slightly different as northerlies mean fantastic swell. So I had been watching the forecast all week and anticipating the great swell due to arrive here.

We watch a variety of sites but good one is magic seaweed, as with all these things you need to apply what is says with some local knowledge and the view of various other sites but it was predicting good waves.

So you can imagine how I felt when I woke on Saturday morning feeling terrible and it was difficult to get out of bed. Made worse by the thick covering of snow and three children desperate to go sledging on the golf course.

I dragged my corpse kicking a screaming to the sledge run and pulled Murray up and then rode down, for what seemed an eternity. Then it was back to the sofa and some shut eye, when the phone rang an Mike was on his way to change in the warm. Because we live so close to the break the house is the changing room and the shower and tea bar after.

I drove down to the break and found Donnie watching the break with Ian Lawson was out on his surf ski and Mike was quickly out as well. On a reasonable size day it makes a good spectator sport with some top thrashings being handed out. I still would have liked to have been out there but we laughed lots.

So I am doing a wind dance for more notherlies so I can get out there.

Tim Pickering
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