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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Drailed » Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:15 am

Yeah still pretty solid this morning, some straight ones but some smokers, great fun.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Beanpole » Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:34 am

Wyre wrote:
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Don't know about that, on my drive home it was still solid 5ft + and firing. Can hear it shaking the ground right now!
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by buddy » Wed Jun 02, 2021 11:24 am

There’s a dude way out to sea on an outer bank off Nth wall paddle surfing on his own.
Must be 500m+ straight off the middle of lighthouse beach.

Someone’s just paddling out now to join him.

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Trev » Wed Jun 02, 2021 12:13 pm

Three and a half hours at my local.🤪

Sleep now. 😴
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Wyre » Wed Jun 02, 2021 12:21 pm

Beanpole wrote:
Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:34 am
Wyre wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 7:40 pm
Don't know about that, on my drive home it was still solid 5ft + and firing. Can hear it shaking the ground right now!
Where do you live, Hawaii?
On a cliff above the ocean.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Beanpole » Wed Jun 02, 2021 2:47 pm

Had a ball today. Paddled out in the crowd thinking maybe I could score a stray one if I sat wide. Then realised 75% had no hope of paddling onto the waves where they were sitting and I was on a mal. Even if they caught one they couldn’t plane through to the inside section from where they were but I could. Stoked. Cracker of a day. Waves up and down the beach.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Beanpole » Wed Jun 02, 2021 2:48 pm

Wyre wrote:
Wed Jun 02, 2021 12:21 pm
Beanpole wrote:
Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:34 am
Wyre wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 7:40 pm
Don't know about that, on my drive home it was still solid 5ft + and firing. Can hear it shaking the ground right now!
Where do you live, Hawaii?
On a cliff above the ocean.
:( Jealous.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by foamy » Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:14 am

Those small shore slappers seem to generate more of an epic night swell noise than actual big surf.

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by alakaboo » Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:26 am

That's because they break in shallower water. But the sound doesn't travel as well due to the higher pitch.

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by foamy » Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:36 am

Where I used to stay about 1km from the beach, some nights you could hear this thrilling deep wave rumble rolling across the land. This was just about always caused by the little slappers. The little slappers occur on still nights which partly explains the noise production.

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Cranked » Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:03 pm

Gragagan is the only place that I've listened to the surf during the night, apprehensive of what the morning would bring:

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Cranked » Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:06 pm

And no shit I lucked into the wave of the day, just after a gigantic set cleared the line-up
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Beanpole » Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:21 pm

Ulus has been big lately on SOB. A few old codgers on rhino chasers scoring a few....and a few floggings. It always looks like a great wave to surf at a bit of size....until you look at how much whitewater you would be dealing with if you got smashed...plus coming in.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by channels » Thu Jun 03, 2021 1:38 pm

foamy wrote:
Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:36 am
Where I used to stay about 1km from the beach, some nights you could hear this thrilling deep wave rumble rolling across the land. This was just about always caused by the little slappers. The little slappers occur on still nights which partly explains the noise production.
If you can be arsed googling it, Swellnet did an in-depth article behind the science of a small shorie creating more noise than a big swell.

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by swvic » Thu Jun 03, 2021 3:53 pm

When I lived at Port Campbell the house would shake on a big swell. The noise was phenomenal- background constant coupled with the boom of the set waves. It was a signal for me to head Northwest. I’d check the activity on the beach in the early morn. Very attentive to their skis and other equipment. Slater was there once. Impressive as that is, the old-school chargers would roll up on the cliff after milking cows and paddle it
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Beanpole » Fri Jun 04, 2021 3:41 pm

Had a bit of a bash. A bit crowded but nothing like yesterday. I counted twenty guys on a non existent peak.
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