if you live on the east coast you should really check out eleuthera. we scored three solid days of uncrowded surf. most days where 5-7 but we had one day that was close to double overhead with offshore breezes. the wave is a definte goofy footers dream and has great shape and tubes nice. best part is that the waters pretty deep and the rocks are not very sharp.
best part was the biggest crowd we surfed with was 8 guys, most of the time it was less then 5. there was a time on the big day when it was just me and my friend out there.
and the water is absolutely crystal clear i could see fish swimin under neath when i was sittin way out side in easily 20 feet of water.
the people are really nice and you can stay for pretty cheap, all though they drive pretty crazy. we had a seriously close call when a out of control truck came within 5 feet of hitting us head on.
either then that the waves where sick and i should be posting some pics soon.
its on the upper third of the island but theres a lot of spots up and down the coast. we stayed at surfers beach which is about two miles from gregory town, at a place called the recovery room.
its really nice kind of small though, but its definetly big enough for four people to live comfortably. the only downside that i had with the place was that its about a ten minute walk down a really crappy rocky mountain road. its nothing really big but if it was a little closer it would be nice.
the rates at the recovery room are about the cheapest that you will find on the island especially that close to the beach. we payed $500 for the week and 1500 for the month and its a fully functioning house with a kitchen and all the apliances you need. theres the surfers beach manor which is about a two minute walk away and the owner floyd charges a 100 bucks a night. its also a really nice place.
if you go to gulfster.com and click on the litte banners at the top you will see a blue sign that says recovery room.
theres a lot of pics of the place and the wave at surfers
i took continental but it was chartered out by some other company. i rented boards when i got there because they charge 200 bucks to get you board there and back. it was cheaper to rent but the board was pretty beat. i would bring my own boad next time.
we did bring bodyboards with us and it was a bit of a hassle, they didnt make it on our flight, and trying to deal with continenatal employees in the bahamas is not the easist thing in the world. needless to say we got the boards a day and a half after we arrived.
i heard from a local surfer that twin-air is the best way to fly, but they are based out of ft. lauderdale.
I went to Eleuthera in 1973; Didn’t get very good waves, but stayed in a Surfer’s Motel in Gregory Town for $3 a night. Accomodations included an electric hotplate and wooden bunks. I went back three months later on my honeymoon, and camped in an oceanview cave right at the edge of a cliff. While I was pursuing a college education, my buddies would work construction jobs for six months, bankroll their money and spend six months in Eleuthera. Looking back, I probably missed an opportunity, but as the years progressed I hear they got too used to a good thing, and moved to Jamaica to become breath-atarians.
if you live on the east coast you should really check out eleuthera. we scored three solid days of uncrowded surf. most days where 5-7 but we had one day that was close to double overhead with offshore breezes. the wave is a definte goofy footers dream and has great shape and tubes nice. best part is that the waters pretty deep and the rocks are not very sharp.
best part was the biggest crowd we surfed with was 8 guys, most of the time it was less then 5. there was a time on the big day when it was just me and my friend out there.
and the water is absolutely crystal clear i could see fish swimin under neath when i was sittin way out side in easily 20 feet of water.
the people are really nice and you can stay for pretty cheap, all though they drive pretty crazy. we had a seriously close call when a out of control truck came within 5 feet of hitting us head on.
either then that the waves where sick and i should be posting some pics soon.
Pretty amazing how that place just sits there east of Florida picking up winter north swells and it seems like there are only 10 people on the entire island with any intentionof surfing. I’ve been there twice, caught Surfers Beach head high a bunch of days and never seen more than 5-8 ppl out and surfed by myself a bunch of szechuans.
yeah its so amazing that more people dont know about it. i was sitting out there bymyself one afternoon session and i thought to myself i am a 150 miles or so from home and here i am sitting in overhead surf in crystal clear blue water. i felt like i was thousands of miles away from anyone.
anyways here some pics with the digital camera i should have some better ones that we got with a good camera a little later.
come to think of it we didnt really get a lot of good pics becasue we spent so much time in the water.
oh by the way the fishing and lobstering are awesome. one pic is from a lobster i caught and had for dinner
heres a cool pic of us bodyboarding on a small day. this guy came down with his dogs and they sat with my girfriend and watched us bodyboard for like half an hour.
Glad that you had a great time.Gregorytown was a great place to stay in the 70’s .We paid $3.oo a night per head for a shack where other surfers were staying at the time.Are the Thompson Brothers still the big men around campus in gregorytown?
i dont really know about the brothers but i know that the thompson sisters bake a mean pineapple tart on the top of the hill in gregory town.
also theres this place called elvinas in town and on tuesday nights they have a jam session for anyone that wants to play. apparently lenny kravitz who has a house on the island plays whenever he is on vacation. also he has a listed number in the eluethera phone book thats pretty amazing for a big celeb.
i have always been the kind of surfer that like to tackle the bigger waves that i could get. now that doesnt happen a lot in cocoa and the big waves we get are nothing comporable to a wave of its size at a real break
but now that i have tackeled a realer surf break and got some real size under my belt, close to double over head. i want to go bigger and hollower. am i crazy to think that i could handle some 20 footers, i feel that my skills are advandced and that i am truly comfortable in the heavy situations (10 years of competive swimming, and a 20 flat in the 50.) i know that i couldnt pull up to jaws or a comporable wave next week and have a go but what should i do to get to that point.
my long term goal is to get into some real big size and maybe do some toe in. am i crazy to think i can do this, my girlfriend thinks so and does anyone know of any big wave surfers on the east coast.
yeah it sure is, and the seafood gumbo is awesome.
i want to keep it a secret too you are the only people that i have told about it. and i figured that this was a good place to get the word out with out turning it into a huge destination.
but by the sounds of it on here i am way behind the times in knowing about surfers beach.
Yeah, a crew of us from Charleston, SC used to go there in the 70s, too, over Christmas break. Camped on the beach or stayed in Gregorie Town. There was nothing at Surfer’s Beach back then. We use to leave our boards in the dunes when we stayed in Town. Last time in '75 I stayed for a couple of months. We were going to try some of the other islands like Cat and San Salvadore, but wound up going to PR instead. 2 years ago a friend and I went to Elbow Cay on Abaco and surfed Garbanzos, different type of trip. We stayed on a mutual friend’s yacht. Since then I have become interested again in the Bahamas. I’ve seen some stuff on the net about Cat and San Salvadore, also Rum Cay. Anyone been that wants to share info? It seems most guys go to CR these days. I returned to PR last year over Christmas w/ my wife and kids and found it less crowded than in '75/76. Bahamas are more expensive and hard to get around, surf is not as consistent and mellower than CR or PR, but there’s just something about those islands!!
big waves is all balls. my firends little brother is a terrible surfer, can barely pump a board, and yet hell throw on swim fins and take off on the gnarliest waves the wedge has to offer. 20 footers right on shore and he loves it. hes done a little swimming, not much, and isnt a beach rat (lives 15 miles inland) but still charges. he also had no trouble going 45 on his dads longboar with loose trucks and reflectors all over the place, he even ate shit and hit the ground, rolled it off and ran into the house without even a whimper.
i want a makeable wave before i go over 12 feet, like a nice point break or reef, everyhting here closes out when it gets big.
yeah thats what i think to there has been times where i have caught hurricane swells smaller and been ten times more afraid then last week. but its becasue its a washing machine out there.
chances are you arent going to die surfing bigger waves, its just the fear that you might. and the worse part is the people telling you that you cant do it.
and people still stash there boards in the bushes at surfers, i must have come across at least 5 or 6.
