snapper this morning? not to mention that other place controlled surfing is coming i fear
Soylent Green solution? SUP solution? Kidding. That looks aweful. Yah’all sure do love your surfing down there. Hope most are riding locally made boards. Good for business. Mike
tough for the bald one what chance mere mortals?
The mere mortals look like theyre doing fine !
But there’s no respect in the lineup anymore…
Not if you’re a 50 year local or an 11 times champ or a quirky builder of odd surfcraft.
I was out at Burleigh last week and the agro level is huge even in small surf.
Once you start landing punches, you get waves.
Or you have your posse that dominates the peak and reeks aggression.
ahh but the good thing we had the best of it before they were born
thank god
cheers huie
yes we did. and the memories get better with time.
With a little time and a plan the good times are still to be had.
Are the hoardes on holiday? I will be joining the fray Tuesday!
rogelio
cool , Roger !
will you be picking up Ambrose’s world travel board while in oz ???
cheers
ben
Hey Ben,
Gonna meet up with Mic somwhere around Sydney on my way home and bring it to California and then over to Hawaii if that is where Ambrose wants it!!
roger
Let’s play spot the Aussie in that pic.
Notice the outside pair aren’t even looking on their inside before taking off.
At the time I thought it was a big call to say the Gold Coast was the most crowded surf in the world. When you look at that photo it’s hard to argue. Slater made the point thta even if you got a wave it wasn’t rideable because you had to dodge an obstacle course.
I think the week-end was made worse because it was the biggest surf all year, after months of small wind swell and the following day was forecast to be onshore, so it concentrated everything. Snapper also has the problem of not being too hard to get out - even if you get washed down you usually can get out at Greenmount (you could substitute Noosa for all of the the above). When the points are good in these conditions there are few options to spread out the crowd. The Gold Coast and surfing has been promoted to death as well.
I surfed Currumbin on Saturday. It was way too crowded and not that many waves to go round. It was harder to get out than Snapper (I got cleaned up on the rocks going out) and the sweep was a killer. I should have reverted to guerilla tactics - which is what I have done at the points. Go out in the howling onshore, in a board that handles chop. A solution but not for everyone.
Some factors will increase your chances of a wave - a really strong sweep, sudden change in conditions from what is forecast, clean up sets, weeks of good surf so everyone is a bit worn out.
Toll surfing reefs or artifical waves - the future? My most memorable waves these days are mostly from trips away.
Good to hear the travel board may be on the move.
Bob
looks like malibu on a good day …that’s good…and crowded !!!
I always felt unfortunate with our small amount of good days and low quality waves. But at least it’s not that crowded in the north sea. But it is getting busier every year.
Some pics of past weekend:
Sometimes its all luck,
Yesterday was a beautiful day, and everybody was out. Today, at a well known point south of Santa Barbara, well overhead sets, and maybe five of us at the top of the Rivermouth. Where was everybody?
Took two waves almost to the highway. Legs burning and face smiling!!!
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The surf is too crowded, kids and man/children only want to by brand names. ‘I only ride Futures and Al Merricks maaaan’'.
Wave pools are going to be the icing on the cake when the whole of inland USA and inland Europe are surfing they will want to travel and move to the real waves.
Take monday off and go surfing whilst you can!!
It was not so long ago that a crowd at a local spot was six guys. On the very best of days in warm weather you might have seen a dozen people through the course of the entire day.
Now, all it takes is for the Weather channel to hype a hurricane and there’s forty to fifty people out at the main break, another 25 at a lesser spot and twelve to fifteen at the place that’s supposedly off limits to most.
The pathetic part is that 80% of them cannot really surf.
I suspect that the real figure is closer to 90%, or even more. I am appalled at the brainless behavior I see in the water. Where will the future watermen come from?
