May 21st and it's a ripper day in Melbourne. Perfect Autumn day with sun out, reasonably clear, blue skies, a light wind and termperature is about 20 degrees Celsius. It's Phillip Island again today as the forecast is for waves between 1/2 to 1 metre and long waits between sets. I head off about 8.00 am, travelling solo and the low tide was also at 8.00 am.
I get to the Island in about 90 mins., the road is great and the trip would be even quicker if there wasn't always road works somewhere on the trip. I head to Woolamai and turn into the first car park and there's about 15 cars there. The surf looks fantastic in that the sun is out and its very clean - the waves are pretty infrequent and small but on a day like today you just have to get wet.
I venture out straight in front of the steps down from the car park and with the wait between sets and size of the swell - 2 foot, it's a breeze getting out. I am sitting there just enjoying the beauty of the day, looking at the beach with the view right down to the surf club in the distance and further on to the black cliffs at the end of Woolamai. My quiet contemplation is then broken by a local seal darting through the water right in front of me. It's a great sight and whilst a I do think seal=shark, I try and put that thought out of my head and focus instead on getting a wave.
I do manage eventually to catch a few waves including a great floater across the top of a breaking wave as I am heading right- it gave me a real buzz, and it is just unfortunate that I have no idea how I did it and so am unlikely to replicate it anytime soon. Still a young bloke out with me looked at me afterwards as though he thought it was pretty impressive. Catch a coupe of good waves going right in what is about a 60 minute surf. Really enjoyable and contrasts a bit with my previous wild Woolamai experiences.
I get out the water feeling like some food but first have to get out of my wetsuit which now has a ribbon attached to the zipper after the original leash broke about 6 weeks ago - this proves a major drama, and it takes me about 15 minutes to wrestle out the of suit and I decide then I will buy a new wettie. I head to Full Circle in Woolamai, via the coffee/food shop up the road which has great pies and burgers and is worth checking out - coffee was pretty good too. I check out the wetties and end up with an upgrade on my 5 year old ripcurl 3/4 with traditional zip up the back - I try the new chest zip wetties but find it too hard to actually get out.
It's such a great day I decide I'll have another surf and so break 35 is just around the corner.
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