Sunday 31st July and today is a fantastic Melbourne Winter day - Sun is out, blue skies, light northerly wind and 19 degrees. There is however hardly any surf anywhere - flat or 1 to 2 ft is the forecast. I head west coast and hope to snag a wave down Fairhaven way, with perhaps a surf at Southside or Winki to get my no.s up. I leave home about 8.00 and I'm down @ Fairhaven at 9.30 and it's as flat as a tack.
I keep going past Fairhaven and come across a longboard event happening at Spout Creek about 1km further west from Fairhaven surf club - its very small and crowded there and so I go about a further 200 meters down the road and decide to give it a go. I head out about 9.45 am or so and god it's flat and I feel like a super optimist. I paddle around to keep the interest and warmth up and then about 10 minutes in a tiny swell arrives and I get onto a 1 ft wave and go right, getting down very low to make the most of the wave and then step off. Today really is all about being out on the ocean. After 15 minutes I'm really quite warm with the sun on my face and I can see all the way down the coast both ways - to the west in the distance is Lorne and in the East is the Airey's Inlet Light house. It is just beautiful out in the water and I would not be anywhere else.
I stay out in the water for about one and a quarter and hours and get probably five or 6 little waves. After about 45 minutes I'm joined by an older long boarder and on the hour by a surf school. The tide is coming in, high tide is about midday and the waves pick up the longer I'm out. I get one quite good, albeit very small, wave in to the shore and hop out to get changed. Today with the sun out and my car parked in the sun, getting changed is a breeze and this not something you normally say about getting changed in the open in July. I have really enjoyed the surf and head into Angelsea for Breakfast. I have breakfast at a very groovy little place down from the hardware store and in the car park opposite the main beach - I have a BLT and Coffee and it's very, very good. I spend the hour after brunch checking out possible surf spots without any luck - Bells flat, Steps no good and so I head home.
44 waves and one week and one day to go - 6 breaks in a week. Anything is possible I guess.
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