State and Nearest Break

[BA]

NSW (Numerous Surfing Wankers)

Bower is closest but I hardly surf it these days due to the above.

[barstardos]

nsw - 1 block from freshie. More commonly found at N Steyne or S curly

[Beanpole]

re: Kingcliffe..
remember about 15 years ago there was a bush track you could drive your car down that'd take you a fair way down towards Fingal...
the banks were a lot punchier down there...
sucked when they closed it off

also, wasn't there supposed to have been some sort of slasher/strangler type murders down that stretch back in the 70's or 80's??

remember hearing of it??

Yep for a while it had some bad shit happening due to the illusion of isolation.
Some psycho army guys tortured a kid there. There was the balaclava rapist who terrorised the area plus random craziness that happens in small coastal towns. Its not all Sea Change with chuckling quirky characters.

[Butts]

NSW

And I wonder

[smackthatlip]

Used to be NZ: Waihi Beach. Now NSW: Maroubra.

[Grooter]

Most of my life - NSW - Bellambi
Now - VIC - Mornington Penn.
Wish I was back home

are you out of your mind??
that stretch cops heaps of swell with loads of good waves...
you'd rather surf bellambi over gunnamatta???

I was actually thinking that myself

Makes you wonder what his favourite type of waves are

Obviously not punchy beachbreaks which rarely get below 2 - 3 feet and quite often deal out waves you'd trade your right nut for..................

(Unless by Mornington Peninsula he mean't Frankston Haven for bottom of the gene pool if ever there was one)

I was puzzled by that as well. As a life-long resident of the Peninsula ( I was born and lived the first 20 years of my life in Frankston - good breeding though plus 12 in Mornington itself) the stretch from pretty much Pt Leo in Westernport right down and around the coast to Portsea has that much variety it's not funny.

I surf Gunnamatta all the time (just did on Sunday and it was a nice 2 -3 ft) and that place is pretty damn good. You need balls of steel to surf it when it is big though as the rips and the power in the waves are crazy. I avoid it when it gets to 6 ft as by then Flinders is pumping with big long lazy left handers on a SW swell.

[mozzquito]

wa
sandpatch

possibly aus's first wave powered electricity site (i think)
http://greatsouthern.thewest.com.au/reg ... ntID=68679

[Sarge]

Victoria

The Well

[Grooter]

^^^^

Check out Phillip Island, not Woolamai but some other locations, I've heard you can get some decent shallow reef breaks and barrels that are pretty much boog only unless as a surfer you fancy breaking your neck!

Flinders is pretty much surfer only, Pt Leo can get some decent shories on a big day as well.

Gunnamatta is still the best ocean break along the Mornington Peninsula and *ahem* Surf Coast (east of Cape Otway not west) in my opinion. Always has waves and always sorts the ego's out. On Sunday there were that many banks working you could have had your pick. Rye isn't bad either on a good day, less options but many reckon it has a better wave.

[Jimi]

NSW. DY to narra. Not NN its a fu@king joke of a circus full of clowns who paddle out no matter how big the crowd, without checking it or anywhere else, just cause its NN

[scroopulis]

wa
sandpatch

possibly aus's first wave powered electricity site (i think)
http://greatsouthern.thewest.com.au/reg ... ntID=68679

Good ol' Sandpatch eh Mozzie? Hows those bloody stairs........

[RickyG]

NSW - Bottom half of Nthn beaches (geographically probably freshie or Curly)

Grew up near the 'nulla and surfed it and south coast for 15yrs or so.

[Grooter]

Phillip Island and The Mornington Penninsula always seemed to get a lot more swell than the west coast a lot more often...
P.I is awesome...
Rye is a good wave, but more of an almond shaped peak from memory, whereas Gunna was more of a grinding wave, and better as well...

Yeah the East Coast stretch from Gunnamatta to Portsea actually faces the SW swell and gets the full force of the Southern Ocean, unlike Torquay/Lorne/Bells/Winki etc.... You've got to keep heading west along the Great Ocean road to places like Johanna to get a good powerful wave.

Rye is a bit more limited. Normally there is a break to the right and the left of the carpark, good waves, but normally not as good as Gunna and the rocks can be a pain.

Why Gunna is so powerful compared to Rye I don't know (thermalben??) but I think it may have to do with the fact that Gunnamatta has less obstructions for the swell to get through??? I'm no expert here.

[dUg]

SA

South Port Wondabank ( 550m)
But since the bank is so fickle, The Hump ( 820m ).

Wish I could say somewhere cooler like Rocky Point, 117m.

[mozzquito]

wa
sandpatch

possibly aus's first wave powered electricity site (i think)
http://greatsouthern.thewest.com.au/reg ... ntID=68679

Good ol' Sandpatch eh Mozzie? Hows those bloody stairs........

legs twinged just thinking about them... what is there? 900 odd at about a 45deg grade.
haven't had much cause to climb them of late - been a shocking stretch of sou-easterlies over summer... improved of late but not when I am home it seems!

[Hano]

NSW
Mads

[ledtool]

VIC - caves, twin reefs or eagles

Just remember there are no good waves past the roundabout onto phillip island..



Tomtom, if you can be bothered driving a bit go and check out around cape conran. drive to the camping area and search from there.
Especially with this 9ft swell predicted for sat on the east coast.
should be some good waves getting into there.

[doowdle]

NSW
South Steyne