Where did you surf today ?

[gibber]

Alex/bluff is my most hated wave on the coast. Even when it's overhead it's crap. Promises so much then fails to deliver every time.
Maybe I'm just bitter cause you guys are getting a few and I'm busy working

[marcus_h]

Alex/bluff is my most hated wave on the coast. Even when it's overhead it's crap. Promises so much then fails to deliver every time.
Maybe I'm just bitter cause you guys are getting a few and I'm busy working

Gibber, I get what you're saying. I surf there more than anywhere else on the coast and it still frustrates the fk outta me sometimes. That being said I've had some great waves there and prefer points to beach breaks to be honest

[roundhouse]

How can you rate that wave? Its probably the worst on the coast. So crowded and uninteresting especially when carties and platties are just up the road which can actually suck up and have some power. But i suppose its alright if you just want trim on a mal. Pretty boring tho.

[marcus_h]

Roundhouse - at the moment i'm alternating between my 9'6" log, new 5'5 fish and a little bit of my quad.

I can see how a full-time shortboarder would find the wave boring. Don't get me wrong i've had some good surfs at Carties, just been a while

[Trev]

Back to The Bluff again this morning - to show Digger what REAL longboard wave is like.



ps. Digger wipes his board down.

Alright which one was you Trev? I was out there from 5:30 until about 7.

I was surfing the sandy/light brown log. Was just wearing white boardies no rashie.

Yeah.
Think I remember you Marcus.
I had a light blue rashie and a trans yellow mal.
I was sitting in the little group about as far south as you can safely go.

[marcus_h]

Back to The Bluff again this morning - to show Digger what REAL longboard wave is like.



ps. Digger wipes his board down.

Alright which one was you Trev? I was out there from 5:30 until about 7.

I was surfing the sandy/light brown log. Was just wearing white boardies no rashie.

Yeah.
Think I remember you Marcus.
I had a light blue rashie and a trans yellow mal.
I was sitting in the little group about as far south as you can safely go.

Yeah I saw you out there. If you're around tomorrow morning I'll say gday.

Was it better earlier on?

[Trev]

marcus, I probably only got into the water about 5am.
Was pretty full even then.
I'll keep an eye out if I make the trek ( ) tomorrow.

[gibber]

Carties is a ok wave, not great. Platforms has given mr a few scars over the years and kept me busy repairing dings.
Honestly though, we have some of the sickest beachies up here, even up towards cotton tree is better than alex most days cept if it's blowing from the south.
That said, I usually don't bother with the maroochy stretch
I'd rather surf around trev's neck of the woods or tiges area

[tiger]

Every region has a certain spot that attracts the mal riders/late starters/learner-intermediate level surfers/kooks. It usually consists of a fat non threatening righthander, that is somewhat central in location, so that coffee shops etc are close by. In the case of the Sunny coast, that spot is Alex.

It's not my cup of tea, but I have surfed it good once. I'll occasionally go there when the lefts are breaking from out front of the surfclub back towards the corner. Had there good more than a few times.

Don't get me wrong tho, I don't hate Alex. It serves a purpose, and serves it well. Like how if you put out a piece of rotting meat it'll attract the flies, and they'll leave you alone where you are.

[matt...]

^^^^ ha ha ha funny shit tiger!
ain't that the truth, though.
where i am it's RUINS - farkin closeout, weak, gets choppy when someone farts - and yet it attracts the crowds!
wamby coffee shop is just up the road, that must be it!
funny shit...

[gibber]

Nice perspective Tim. Sometimes I miss the bigger picture

[GregL]

The Spit early, 2ft, okay at first but swallowed by the tide later. Water's unreal at the moment though. Warm & crystal clear. Saw a dolphin do a full vertical leap out of the water silhouetted by the rising sun. Now THAT was special!

[Trev]

Every region has a certain spot that attracts the mal riders/late starters/learner-intermediate level surfers/kooks. It usually consists of a fat non threatening righthander, that is somewhat central in location, so that coffee shops etc are close by. In the case of the Sunny coast, that spot is Alex.

BTW. Have you seen Happys lately?
There is so much sand there and it's attracted almost every holiday maker at the southern end of the coast.
It's like Superbank without the surf.
Which is good coz they haven't ventured around the headland.
However, Ann St yesterday was a circus.
Didn't look at your, Gaz's and Don's fav sc beachie.
Didn't want to be the bearer of bad news so I didn't look.

[PeepeelaPew]

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[diggerdickson]

So I surfed Alex, mmmm, what did I think of it - not bloody much though it was packed with longboarders. I was the only shortboarder that was stupid enough to even think of paddling out. Total waste of time and in the end paddled down to maroochydore to get some shitty wave into the beach so I could go home. I would be interested in seeing what alex is like overhead though the place I surfed yesterday had better potential for what I saw and I will be regulary going down that way when the swell is up for sure. Better than coolum beach though that aint to hard lately.

[marcus_h]

Alex in the corner is shit, sand is all over the place and it gets more kooks than the bluff!

[ledge71]

Learners, kooks, long boarders, sups, bodyboarders and tourists! They all piss me off...but hey, I was a kook once, a learner, ridden a bodyboard as a kid, am a longboarder when the conditions suit and a tourist as much as possible! So as much as it pains us all it's better then the alterative...DEAD or living in IRAQ!

So now that I've been all peace loving and stuff...would all of the above PLEASE stay away from my local!

Loving life!

Mick

P.S Notice how I didn't say I'd ridden a SUP!

[pridmore]

wheres ya local ?, fluff, ann st, B.I, Kings or ??? good luck with that fantasy, .a good little bit of perspective there but we all hate it when anywhere gets crowded..I hear touros complaining about the amount of touros WTF ????..reality is more and more people wanna surf and the coastline isnt getting any bigger so crowds are inevitable...some have secret spots, some move to much less crowdwd areas, some just deal with the crowds and get bitter and whinge alot ( which is what most seem to do unfortunately )...the amount of learners and kooks around these parts has blown me away lately, today, in the waves there would have been 40 surfers and out of them, there was only about 5 who I would say were average or better.....great if you sell mini-mals and learner boards but if you were hoping to enjoy some waves, good luck...best I go to my secret spots again ....