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Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2023 4:29 pm
by buddy
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2023 4:50 pm
by Wyre
alakaboo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 2:51 pm
They got skunked, as you normally will when you go to Agnes.
Mrs Wyre and I bought a Ford Escort panel van in Darwin to drive to Sydney (25 yrs ago), which was pretty nuts. It had a surfboard with it, which was useless for ages obviously- we went right through the desert, inland Qld and up to Cape Trib and then slowly cruised down.
Someone saw the board up near Cairns and mentioned the fact that Agnes Waters was the first spot where the reef ended and surf could be found.
Imagine my surprise to rock up there and find waves much like this. I was pretty green to surfing and just assumed it was like that all the time!
The feeling of being able to swim and surf after a month of wet season crocodile/jelly fish denial was a great moment that still stays with me.
Awesome spot.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2023 4:58 pm
by alakaboo
Yeah I know it well, it's where I learned to surf.
We have a place at 1770.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2023 5:03 pm
by ajohnsen
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:53 am
by Beanpole
Nice article about Crescent by some guy called Nick Carroll on Surfline. It really doesn’t need the publicity though.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:08 am
by buddy
Beanpole wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:53 am
Nice article about Crescent by some guy called Nick Carroll on Surfline. It really doesn’t need the publicity though.
Just read it. Must be a different Nick Carroll.
Nick Carroll wrote: ↑Sun Nov 01, 2020 5:02 am
oh and polebean if there ever was a time to go to Crescent Head (and I'm not saying there ever was beyond about 1966), nows the fucken time cobber.
Nick Carroll wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2017 1:46 pm
Braithy wrote:Lennox Heads, Angourie, Crescent ... all places where the romance is still alive, and there is a defined pecking order.
Isn't Crescent a seething hell of old rubberneck longboarders?
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:13 am
by steve shearer
Just read it- hilarious reading Carroll now romanticising the hipster/longboard scene he pilloried so relentlessly.
Obvs Surfline knows where it's bread is buttered.
He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:14 am
by buddy
He made true on his promise of getting them to put a webcam there though.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:18 am
by steve shearer
Oh, so the story was just to advertise the webcam.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:24 am
by buddy
Most likely.
Bit of a cnut act talking up the backroads though.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:39 am
by foamy
I like Crescent. But I reckon the surfcam would rarely inspire anybody to take a long drive there for the waves.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:42 am
by buddy
It inspires the modern surfer, foamy.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:50 am
by foamy
You are probably right. The modern surfer wants somewhere safe and cruisy, where you rarely have to duck dive.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:51 am
by buddy
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:52 am
by steve shearer
Crescent is being positioned as the new Byron, so a surfcam is part of the essential infrastructure that modern hipster surfers expect.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:54 am
by steve shearer
Is that Tom spruiking a real estate development?
Which would make Nicks article make even more sense and have more of a whiff about it.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:59 am
by buddy
Seems that way.
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:14 am
by steve shearer
He doesn't happen to be spruiking a real estate development at Agnes by any chance?
Or Surfline opening a new camera there?