Well, what an amazing week we’ve had.
Clean swell on monday
The previous post outlined and the predicted swell, and some early snaps indicated that it was going to be good, but really we have much more to talk about than just the waves.
Marching swell
A few highlights from the week just ended.
- Early morning session in huge overhead conditions in the middle of the Bay – including creating a new hole in my knee
- The new and highly questionable smell coming from my car
- Jumping-off Stag Rock to paddle out in huge waves with Steve, James and Murds in a classic old-school session
- Getting a luscious Sunday evening session with light off-shores and gorgeous golden light
- Covering god-knows how many miles and spending £70 on fuel chasing waves around the coast (not exactly sure this is a highlight…)
- Making ‘The Sacrifice’ successfully, twice, and scoring as a direct result… its as guaranteed as paying taxes
- Meeting and surfing with lots of new faces from up and down the coast – great to see more people in the area
Big and onshore
All things considered, we have had a sensational week, lots of swell, mixed weather including plenty of sunshine, new faces, new boards and shapes to eye-up and plenty of spots visited and surfed.
Of course there are downsides, I appear to have developed a nasty chest-hack, and my head is a bit full -hopefully with just a summer-cold and not anything to do with swine-flu ;), and of course there are always the odd gripes over who should be surfing where and what photos get taken.
Beadnell Point reeling
Racing the wall
Big hack...
The happy place
There really are not many surfers up here, and of course this is one of the attractions of living here. But once you’ve lived and surfed in genuinely busy spots such as Croyde, Bude, Newquay – all of Cornwall actually – Australia, New Zealand et-all, you can realise just how good we have it. With that in mind im never going to subscribe to the narrow-minded, selfish and generally childish mentalities of some people. Life is too good and too short to hold these sort of feelings.
The long paddle-out
So with the swell gone and a return to normality lying ahead, im sitting here watching Occy and Tom Curren tear-apart perfect JBay… I had better hold onto these memories, they will probably have to last until the next decent swell sometime in November…. :).
Peaking...
Big out-east
Seahouses harbour taking the brunt
Screaming right
Big screaming left
Sunday evening slash
Lining-up...
Tucking-in
Sunset shimmer
It does look like there might be some nice waves at Thurso next week mind… maybe a trip is in-order.
See you in the water.
Aloha.
Tags: beachbreak, localism, reef-break, sunburn, surfing, swell
beadnell, documentation, photos, sunshine, surf, watersports, weather | admin | July 14, 2009 10:52 am | Comments (0)
As everyone knows, England, despite having an average summer, never does very well for surfing conditions in summer.
Or as we thought.
For the second year in a row, we’re going to get some of the potentially largest and best swell ever seen in the summer months on the east coast.
Ive just returned from the water having decided i should get the board out and get the arms ready for the rest of the week. It was huge – overhead and barreling all down the beach. You just don’t get waves like that on the East coast of England.
So, the rest of the week is supposed to get bigger and bigger… the charts look like this –
Swell forecast
Remember today was at least 5-6 foot.
And with the radar looking like this…
Chart
Im pretty sure we will have decent overhead surf for the next week… with a ten second period. That means getting the jetski’s out and towing-in with the sun shinning, and seeing all those secret reef’s lighting-up.
Bring it on…
Some snaps form the session this morning;
Clean lines
Marching swell
Inner Farne setup
Workable...
Tags: bamburgh, beadnell, forecast, photos, surf, swell
activities, beadnell, photos, surf, water | admin | July 6, 2009 4:28 pm | Comments (1)