winter fourteen

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Re: winter fourteen

Post by steve shearer » Thu Aug 28, 2014 1:32 pm

swvic wrote:And you cnuts reckon I should move north

My last half a dozen surfs I've known everyone in the water. Most on any of them days was 6 people. Sure, it's not Kirra or Snapper, but it has been pretty fcuken good

And yet not even a hundred miles as the crow flies south there were uncrowded Pointbreaks for the taking.

Braithy I spoke to a bloke from tassie on the weekend who'd flown up for the swell.

He said the east coast is inconsistent as fcuk, those novelty points break once a year and are stupidly crowded when they do.

And the water is freezing.

Maybe you just need to expand the horizons a little. The Goldy is a joke, we all know that.
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Re: winter fourteen

Post by swvic » Thu Aug 28, 2014 1:45 pm

If I was to ever go Steve, it certainly would be at least 100 miles south of Qld

I'm also realising it's not just about the paddling anymore. If I get hammered with my arm not pulled in against my body, my shoulder hurts like fcuk
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Re: winter fourteen

Post by alakaboo » Thu Aug 28, 2014 1:48 pm

ctd wrote:Laird shoots the pier - on a SUP
http://mashable.com/2014/08/27/laird-ha ... hoot-pier/
The last 30s of that film are excellent.

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Re: winter fourteen

Post by swvic » Thu Aug 28, 2014 1:54 pm

The last 5 or so seconds spoiled it a bit for me
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Re: winter fourteen

Post by alakaboo » Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:13 pm

Yeah, that was a bad doggie

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Re: winter fourteen

Post by Yuke Hunt » Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:43 pm

alakaboo wrote:The last 30s of that film are excellent.
Fcuk yeah ... shoot the pear.
The moving finger writes and having writ moves on ... now all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel even half a line ... nor all thy tears wash out a single word of it.

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Re: winter fourteen

Post by foamy » Thu Aug 28, 2014 3:04 pm

Via Coastalwatch.
Mick Fanning, fresh from being Teahupooed, at Kirra today
I can't recall seeing a longer tube ride in Australia
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.coastalwatch.com/videos/1340 ... st-28-2014

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Re: winter fourteen

Post by crabmeat thompson » Thu Aug 28, 2014 3:56 pm

you never saw kirra in the 90's?
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Re: winter fourteen

Post by el rancho » Thu Aug 28, 2014 6:17 pm

the footage from kirra today will be unsane.

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Re: winter fourteen

Post by steve shearer » Thu Aug 28, 2014 6:20 pm

i saw Parko get a million second tube.

Looks like extending the Big Groyne has made a big diff hey.
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Re: winter fourteen

Post by el rancho » Thu Aug 28, 2014 6:26 pm

yep. I saw noa deane, vb drinking hipster and son of wayne deane, get 4 barrels on one wave
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Re: winter fourteen

Post by crabmeat thompson » Thu Aug 28, 2014 6:27 pm

i'm done.

can't move.
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Re: winter fourteen

Post by el rancho » Thu Aug 28, 2014 6:32 pm

did two laps of kirra this arv and got one big set wave that didn't barrel but was hell fun on my home-shaped 5'9 four finner, and then a draining runaway and got eaten up.
rest of the time was spent paddling.

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Re: winter fourteen

Post by alakaboo » Thu Aug 28, 2014 6:47 pm

Wasn't just the rocks Steve.
This is the first big swell since the reef has been properly exposed.
Took 10 years to scour out.

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Re: winter fourteen

Post by steve shearer » Thu Aug 28, 2014 7:00 pm

yeah the reef was critical.

So does the bank now hug the Point like the old day or does it straighten out somewhere along the line?


Merks, dunno about here mate.......watched the sand all go bye-byes today.

see what happens when this settles but I reckon it's gone daddy gone.
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Re: winter fourteen

Post by el rancho » Thu Aug 28, 2014 7:07 pm

some pie-van gets locked in. check the barrel stance.
this is the first set that rolled through when I rocked up.

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Re: winter fourteen

Post by crabmeat thompson » Thu Aug 28, 2014 8:53 pm

steve shearer wrote:yeah the reef was critical.

So does the bank now hug the Point like the old day or does it straighten out somewhere along the line?


Merks, dunno about here mate.......watched the sand all go bye-byes today.

see what happens when this settles but I reckon it's gone daddy gone.
nah, doesn't hug the point like it use to, still breaks about 50+ metres further out from where it use to. it's still following the sand line from the superbank.

kinda straightens/ gets too fast a bit past where little groyne used to be. Then it fattens out completely a bit past that. You can see when it's calm where the bank ends just into a deep gutter. old kirra 9 outta 10 waves were makeable ... it's now about 50-50 depending how good you are. there were plenty of punters making barrels, and plenty more getting snapped in two.

guys like dingo and mick were stalling and speeding up and getting 3 or 4 dirty, filthy tubes every wave.

I can't see anything changing the line of sand from snapper (in relation to the wave hugging the old point). maybe when the reef is properly exposed and little groyne comes back? even then, for that to happen you'd need greenmount to appear on some level again. thats the old sand line kirra followed, not snapper.

i tell you what, little groyne kirra was a disgustingly dirty little wave to tuck into in its day. if that wave comes back, I'll move back to kirra.
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