Woolacombe area yesterday.
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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Hurricane Rafael Swell
A few phone snaps from Croyde during the big October ex-hurricane Rafael swell, the light was great and the waves some of the most well groomed I’d ever seen, think the buoys were showing something like 4ft @ 20 seconds that morning!
Need some of that sunshine now… really looking forward to spring.
One 4 LA
The Threaded City – LA Surf and Culture via One 4 LA
Winter Colours – Woolacombe
Woolacombe yesterday on a sunny winters day peppered by the icey breath of a strong easterly. From some angles the hilled streets littered with overhead power lines remind me a little of San Francisco…… Purely in a cosmetic way!
South Coast Rights
South Coast UK, small right hand rollers a couple of winter’s back in February
The Golden Hour
Retro VeeDub
High Tide Backwash Capers at Sandymere
High tide Sandymere on Saturday was a weird one, I knew the tide was going to be high enough for some horrid backwash capers at about 9.30am so I planned fully to be in the water for before 8 to catch the last of the push for what was a really nice swell and almost no wind. However I made the mistake of dismissing my morning alarm instead of snoozing… dedication for you! So by the time I got to the beach it was nigh on high tide (top pic is when I arrived, bottom pic shows improving wave shape after I got out as the tide receded), I couldn’t be arsed to drive elsewhere so had an hour and a half trying to get into some steep to fat to steep to fat backwashy ones. Had one interesting air drop in an otherwise fairly un-noteworthy session. Great to see the sun breaking through though and giving rise to a run of more settled weather and more clean waves on the horizon this week, there’s a whiff of spring in the air and I for one can’t wait for things to warm up a little bit!
Saunton Rollers
A few really fun little waves at Saunton yesterday, the weather was terrible with a lot of rain and wind pushing around the air however the waves were waist and a bit high on the sets (photo is not a set wave!) and most of them were really peeling down the line giving some fairly long right handers. Feel like I’m getting a lot better at surfing pro-actively now rather than just reacting to the wave face I’m now looking for sections more and making more premeditated carves – looking forward to some more clean waves now to continue improving and by the looks of the forecast I shouldn’t have to wait long!
Wild, Winterry Widemouth
This was Widemouth Bay yesterday – dark, misty, moody and damp, sums up North Cornwall quite well I think! Waves were big and thumping in, difficult to judge size but the bigger sets were getting on towards double overhead on the face I reckon but the swell was lumpy and disorganised hence no-one out, may have been a few spots down the coast handling the swell a little better though.