Archive for: Surfing

Beej dug out these shots from our trip to The Chapel a few years back, I just love the way The Rev, blesses those waters down at The Porth. Check em out…

PS: What is the plan for tonight matey?

So lets put this boring banter about Orwell behind us and get onto the more important subject of surfing, notably how awesome Fistral has been looking. Man I want to be down there, classic, solid autumn swell coming in, offshore, sizable waves and no one about. Will have to get down there before the end of the year and feature a proper winter session. Anyone game?

Image copyright: Adam Nolan, http://www.cornishimages.com

I have just finished putting the final touches to the WST06 website. Here you can view the full-length DVD (in optimised SWF format), courtesy of YouTube, Google maps, and a little bit of nifty AJAX coding from myself.

If you dig it, then please send me some feedback.

So I have been doing a little research into possible places to go and check out for 2007 and (very rough) list is looking something like this: Maine (USA), Winnipeg (Canada), British Columbia, Oregon, San Fran, Dan Diego, Baja, Costa Rica, Chile, Peru and then Salvador da Bahia (Brazil).

I am hoping some of you lot might want to join me this time around, as Sulli was the other one last year with enough balls (and cash I guess) to come to Bali for reef inspection.

So boys, there are plenty more reefs for you all to get up close and personal with, so why don’t you go outside the box and come on the tour, if not the whole thing, then at least a leg. Dru, Chris Cole and Sulli have mentioned an interest, all good!

PS: Sulli is right about that shirt in the photo, I love the skin tight look, and that shirt is one of a kind, made by mumma circa. 1983, the year of high fashion.

:)

Richie and I made the journey up to Runton yesterday to get involved in some classic chop. The faces ranged from 4-6ft, with a definite “bobbies” element to the lineup. I managed to catch maybe 5-6 waves and endured a few wipeouts, one of which was kinda hardcore. I was cruising down the face and suddenly lost my footing. I hit the water so hard it felt like concrete, and sounded like a rather sharp punch to the side of my head. I came up a little shocked, shook it off and then returned to the lineup.
We managed 3 hours of surfing and then hung up our wetsuits and retired to the confort of the pub over in West Runton.

We supped on a couple of pints and relaxed in the sun for a few hours, all good. We then hit cromer pier, armed with fish and chips. It was a chilled evening, with the sun low on the horizon, but defintely warmer than when we had left that morning in the pouring rain.

All in all a good day out, and much better than 50% of the population who would have been sitting on the arses on the Sunday afternoon doing the nation’s favourite sport, slobbing out!

So finally the swell has arrived. The weather is pretty dire this weekend, but the upside of that is a 5-7ft swell up at East Runton this weekend. Richie a.k.a the P dog, is in transit as we speak and him and I are gonna hit the beast that is Runton, early tomorrow morning.

I am expecting 4-5ft faces, and who knows, we may even get a little bigger. I think it’s gonna be a little messy up there, but hey, they’re waves man, and I am on it, big style. We’ll take the DV cam and digital camera and hopefully get some pics to show ya’ll next week. Bring it on…

So I was sending some pics of me over to Elise this evening and I thought I’d give the blog a retro-feel with a little pic of mini me, back in the day, 1983, when things were simple, penny sweets were plentiful and brown was the colour of the day, be it curtains, shorts, t-shirts, it was brown brown brown.

In another exciting note, it is only 11 days until Elise arrives…

I have been working down in London for the past 3 days, with the guys and gals at Electric. Have done some great work and they were pleased with my efforts. I have just also won a new development contract for one of their clients, which is cool and will keep me out of trouble for the next few weeks until Elise arrives.

On a different tip, Runton looks like it has the potential to maybe ‘go off’ next weekend, haven’t been up there this year yet, so would be nice to get the boards out and feature some East Coast aciton…

Bummer hey, but I traded in an arvo’s waves at Runton for 2 days work in London. Charts saying that there might be a wave early next week, so hopefully catch a few then.

Weekend ahead and it looks like it’s gonna be a chill one, Kat, Mike and little Jared up for this evening and might be meeting up with my bro after my meeting this evening.

Yep here they are in all their glory, super mini, super cruisey, super laid-back style, keep it strictly toes over my son, check em out below: