Sunday 19th February and the day awakes as a pretty nice day and surf forecast is good too. Sam and I are "batching it" this weekend with Sue away. Sam is tired and sleeps in till about 10.30 and we don't hit the road till nearly 11.00 am and we are heading to the west coast again as I need to go to Anglesea to pick up something I left in cafe the week before. As we get closer to Geelong the wind and weather start to change and I am feeling no so optimistic about the surf prospects.
We get to Anglesea and we decide to try urquarts bluff - it's probably the third time in recent weeks we are having a look there. Driving along the magnificant greta ocean road it does not look great in the water - the wind has blown out the surf and it's pretty messy. Urquarts bluff is protected by a large rock bluff (surprise, surprise!!) and I think it may be ok. We arrive and there are surferes out but it's a little messy. We decide to head out away.
There is a strong rip in the water dragging you down the beach away from the point and Sam and I watch surfers entering the water towards the bluff end of the beach. We do likewise and start going out. It's very messy and most waves are on the reform, rather than clean. I head out the back and I manage to catch four waves in about 30-40 mins of surfing - I have to come in twice and head back out though as I have been dragged down the beach. The wave is a righ breaking wave but today the rides are pretty short. I get two good waves where I manage to go cleanly down and across and face and turn out the back of the wave - neither are particularly long rides but I was up quickly and enjoyed the rides. Sam has a fairly frustrating time just getting out amongst the mess, but lets me know that he got a couple of rides in the whitewater.
Urquarts Bluff is a pretty little spot and worth a visit but I wouldn't write home about the waves and that's perhaps why in the surf guides it tends to get only a passing mention at best.
29 breaks to go and 24 weekends left. It will be touch and go I think and I need to have a week off work I think to make it happen.
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