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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Wyre » Thu May 17, 2018 10:10 pm

Be interesting to see how this long range swell goes tomorrow.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Over55yrs » Fri May 18, 2018 2:35 pm

Nice little peak amongst the backpackers, learners, SUP and others (who all drifted north of it).

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by steve shearer » Fri May 18, 2018 5:55 pm

I had the strangest surf just then.

Checked Tallows on my way back from the airport and it looked fun in the corner; punchy lefts breaking into the rip. A dozen or so people out, maybe 20 along the whole beach.
Went back to the industrial estate to grab a board and came back. Ready to ride this little Slater Cymatic for the first time.

I got onto the beach and I could see no-one in the water. No one.

The lefts were still breaking in the corner, punchy little things sometimes winding in on themselves. Light NW wind, perfect for the spot.

Empty. It was surreal. I craned my head and looked up the lighthouse, I couldn't see any tourists lollygagging.

Something must have happened ,,,,shark attack or suicide bomber.

So I went out and grabbed a few lefts, then a few more.
Only one way to test this, I thought. So I stripped off and went back out and surfed naked.
No one came.

The session ended as the day started to wind down. I went over the handlebars on a dredge out and wading into the beach with the sun in my eyes I could not see the board.....no legrope.
By the time I got into the beach, the board was halfway out in the rip and going around Cape Byron by the time I swam out to it. That didn't feel nice.

I could barely get to my feet on the board.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Lucky Al » Fri May 18, 2018 6:04 pm

surfing naked was the test?

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Lucky Al » Fri May 18, 2018 6:05 pm

how long did you surf naked? at tallows. did your doodle get a bit red?

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by steve shearer » Fri May 18, 2018 6:13 pm

about 30 minutes....a little bit.

I just thought it would make something happen....but nothing did.

I passed a stoned dude with a mohawk on the beach on the way back and two Spanish babes doing yoga up the beach.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Skipper » Fri May 18, 2018 6:33 pm

No legrope!. That's crazy.

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by steve shearer » Fri May 18, 2018 6:37 pm

they had a radio in Spanish giving them instructions......it was pretty cool.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by buddy » Fri May 18, 2018 6:41 pm

You were wearing your hood but yeh?

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by steve shearer » Fri May 18, 2018 6:44 pm

I was so close to, I would have, but I arranged to get a new one from Don Munro and I just picked it up off him then. The old one got chewed by rats.
So, no.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by steve shearer » Fri May 18, 2018 6:44 pm

Damn, I could not ride that tiny little Cymatic. 5'6". in helium technology.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by buddy » Fri May 18, 2018 6:55 pm

Damn, would have been quite the look.
Gimpish, if that's a word :)

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by The Mighty Sunbird » Fri May 18, 2018 8:09 pm

Surfing nude plus no legrope plus nobody out in Byron means you quite possibly literally jumped the shark
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by The Mighty Sunbird » Fri May 18, 2018 8:11 pm

And figuratively
Ps fcuck you can’t post so soon heap of shit website
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by crabmeat thompson » Fri May 18, 2018 11:03 pm

If the wsl can harness Shearer's Tallows session, they just might not be dead yet.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Nick Carroll » Sat May 19, 2018 12:09 pm

Inspired by Hatchnam, I am going to ride nothing but single fins for the next two weeks.

Ten channel single fins.

I’ll report back.

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Nick Carroll » Sat May 19, 2018 12:09 pm

Ps it’s fun again down here, happy times!

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Hatchnam » Sat May 19, 2018 12:30 pm

Nick Carroll wrote:
Sat May 19, 2018 12:09 pm
Inspired by Hatchnam, I am going to ride nothing but single fins for the next two weeks.

Ten channel single fins.

I’ll report back.
Attaboy! I’m heading to Wanda this minute with a big old pintail single fin to mow me down some long south swell walls
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