Here, it’s sneaking around 0-5 degrees, water temp mebbe 5-8 degrees, waves suck and the clams are around 50 to the square foot, so that’s what I am doing, in the water up to my elbows. Makes me a few bucks, so I can spring for some boots that are both warm and fit, 'cos I am here to tell ya that 1/2 split toe reef boots don’t cut it in the North Atlantic in winter. And the 5 mm ones are impossible to get on.
Life is cruel. But once you understand that, it all falls into place.
Well… Two weeks a Middleton (yes Chipper - “Dribbleton”) is over.
Clocked up well over fourty hours in the water. Best of it was three days of glassy 3-4’ waves. And yes and very good portion of that time was clocked on those days
Got in the water every day. Even on that eerie dead flat day (just went for a paddle).
As for sharks - ten 5+ meter suits spotted within 100 meters of shore in a seven day period. That was in the gulf. I wasn’t in the Gulf so I didn’t worry
If I am gonna go I am gonna go. Better in the ocean than in a car wreck.
