Saturday 21st November and today Sam and I are off to Crunchie Point ("Crunchies") at Point Leo. The day itself is a great spring day - about 22, sunny and with a light wind. The outlook for Westernport where Pt Leo is (http://www.swellnet.com.au/reports/home)
sounds good. It's a high tide wave and lucky for us high tide is about 11.00 am and so we can head off about 9.30, which we do.
Point Leo is a great learners break and is always full of old blokes on Mals and kids learning to surf. As an old bloke with a big board (7'6") and still coming to grips with surfing I love it. I really like the drive to "Leo" - it's only an hour from our place and you travel nicely from suburbia to the country to the beach without the traffic and sheer boredom of the drive down the west coast through Geelong. Crunchies is through the park entrance and the first car park on the left. Sam and I drive up to the top car park with the view and jump out to check out the surf. It's normal Leo - despite reasonably crap surf there's plenty out including the normal surf school. The surf is probably 1/2 metre (sounds better than 1-2 foot) with the odd, very odd 1 metre wave. The wind is fickle and all in all I'm not feeling terribly confident about a good surf - then again who cares it's a great day to be the water.
Sam and I get down to the beach and then it's over the rocks, dive in and start paddling. It's about 11.00, when we enter the water. We start paddling out and I break away a bit from Sam and start heading out the back - we've only been in about five minutes and I turn around to see how Sam is going - only to see him standing up and gunning down a typical crunchies small right hander - he shoots along for about 10 meters and falls off, clearly wrapped with his performance. He's off to a great start.
For me the next hour in the water is somewhat mixed - I get probably two decent waves, fall off the back or just fail to get onto about five and help Sam out for a fair bit of it. The latter includes me paddling Sam out, whilst he grabs hold of my legrope - I paddle slowly anyway but we were moving like treacle with him holding on. We did manage to get out a fair way though and most of the time Sam does paddle himself. The water is fantastic and I always love how clear and clean it seems at Crunchies. I think Crunchies is a great beach - its got a great rural feel, big trees around, the cliff face and the boat club mixed with the rocks at lowtide. You can walk for miles either way, do a rock ramble and collect shells and it's also a real suntrap - if you can't tell I like it.
Sam and I head out of the water after about and hour and quarter and the by the time we are changed it's about 12.30 and time for lunch and we also need to repair Sam's board - the black cord to his legrope has snapped somehow, just near the end of our session and so we will need to get that fixed. If you're at Point Leo there's only one place to go after a surf and that's Pittie's, right next to the Trigger bros. shop. We have brunch at Pitties - Sam has his usual of chips, a potato cake and a hashbrown washed down with a coke and I have a bacon and egg roll with a coffee. The food is always great here and then we head into Trigger Bros., (http://www.triggerbrothers.com.au/ )
it is just a great Surf shop - I ride a TriggerBros 7'6'' Stubby and they are always really helpful, glad to talk to you and also have great bargains. We get our black cord for nothing which is great, buy some wax and then head home. Break no. 3 is down and I feel that I can really build some momentum now before Christmas - should try and get close to 10 before xmas.
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