OK folks where you hoping to score on the Easter long weekend. I'm in WA heading to the Margs / Yallingup area forecast is for a bit of swell and offshore then a bigger swell starting with some onshores then not sure.
Whats your plan you gonna score? Lets see photos if you do.
To quote Patti Smith ( I think)
" Jesus died for somebody sins but not yours or SUP riders".
Ref. Horses album.
or was that Horses for courses album.
Aloha.
Heading off tomorrow sparrows try to miss the easter debacle.
Monday will head a bit north
Was hoping to get to Robe but the Minister for War and Finance lowered the boom. Oh well, worse places to be stuck and the swell looks like its set to jack, should be waves of some description for the next seven days.
Cheers
Sparx
Going to the south coast of nsw tomorrow with a trip to Sydney thrown in the middle of the break somewhere to pick up a new DTM custom sup
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looks like I'm leaving some good easter vicco waves behind though
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cheers
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palm beach hotel at 7.15 thrus, the guy in the corner with a bag of _________woops, wrong subject
PRK, 7.15am. 21/04/11 Be there or be somewhere else. I'll be the confused looking one try to work out whether it's McTav or Supatax time.
Heading off this afternoon to the Gairdner River, east of Bremer Bay.
Swell and weather looking OK, so hope to get some waves on one of the beaches nearby. If not will do some fishing.
Margs / Yallingup look to go, as well as south coast around Walpole to Albany. Crowds will be a bit mental though.
Have a great easter all
. I'll be the confused looking one try to work out whether it's McTav or Supatax time.
Thanks for the Heads up Sparx! I'm not on baby sitting duties until 2.00 pm so I have a few hours up my sleeve. (if they're your own kids is it really baby sitting?). I might try either a little further South or see if a mission le impossible is on. Failing everything else I'll see if they give me a wild card into the BB classic. It's being held at 'Cosy Corner' I was told.
PS. You must have the best job in the world cruising up and down the coast like a millionaire. Probably nearly as rich as an electrician.
I'm not on baby sitting duties until 2.00 pm so I have a few hours up my sleeve. (if they're your own kids is it really baby sitting?). I might try either a little further South or see if a mission le impossible is on. Failing everything else I'll see if they give me a wild card into the BB classic. It's being held at 'Cosy Corner' I was told..
My apologies Sparx
. Your'e spot on, on all accounts, especially 2nd term. Might catch you one day at you're secret spot or OG/13th. The flat screen method has success at our house as well. Happy Easter and enjoy your double decaf latte with a twist!
Cheers Leroy
heading down south too with the rest of the exodus ......
catching up with the G'room,, for some secret insider local boy knowledge.
Cant wait to get on the proper stuff.
The wife's off on a holiday Saturday so I'm planning on surfing every day, probably all over Vicco.
East coast, west coast, almost coast, and probably the island. It feels like I'm going on a surf trip! (with driving!)
Leroy, swell is more SW now so your chances at PRK might be slightly better.
Hope you get some good waves!
Just checked the back of Portsea and its going off, checked Bells live on the web and its going off, checked Winguru and guess what? For the next five days its going off. Faaaark ya gotta love this time of year!!!!
Cheers
Sparx
OK
Back to the core business. Who scored today. Swell in Vicco was pumping!! Pumping to the point where I had some fairly epic waves inside Port Phillip Bay. Down Torquay way looked classic but not epic if the Rip Curl webcast was indicative. How was your PRK mission this morning Leroy? With swell direction as it was would imagine some of the East Coast Vicco corners would have been going off.
Whats happening in the rest of the Land of Oz?
Cheers
Sparx
Scored bigtime last 2 days.
Hordes have descended will run away tomorrow after the dawnie
hopefully everyone will be outta town so Ill have metro to myself early tomorrow then....... 
wishful thinking I know.
Got a touch excited about the surf yesterday morn and thought I might show you why. The following short clip was taken from the Point Lonsdale Front Beach looking across to the East Coast, Point Nepean and Cheviot Beach. Not hard to see why Harry Holt got the axe out there. Sorry about the blurry vision and the shaky camera but have a look at some of those massive lefthand kegs coming through. Bare in mind I am filming from over two K's away. At the end of the pan out to the right there is a wave breaking in the middle of nowhere, literally out on the horizon. The local fishos call this Nine Fathom Reef, presumably because theres nine fathoms of water over it. Do the math, a fathom is six feet, nine fathoms is fifty four feet. If a three foot wave will break in six feet of water that puts these suckers somewhere in the thirty foot range. Awesome!
Cheers
Sparx
Hey Sparx, I scored really well and was only limited by my ability. (I haven't been down the coast for 3 months
) I swopped the Supatx about a half hour in for the McTav and I caught some amazingly long rides but spent a lot of time picking myself out of the drink while waiting for waves. There were a couple of local guys that got rides from right out on the point through to 200 metres past the boat ramp. (Well deserved of a hoot). It's on my backhand so I ended up sitting mid way in and catching quite few of the smaller lefts by myself. Why would you go anywhere else than Vicco when its Autumn? Where did you end up surfing? I presume you would have shortboarded yesterday as the quality of the waves was excellent and I know you are a very good allround waterman.
Cheers Leroy
PS. That vid you took scared me!!
PPS. Sorry Sparx just read your post properly. I actually considered checking out Pt L Front beach but if it wasn't working I was on a limited time frame before I had to get back to the city.
Day 2...
Got some fun little lefts and rights with a mate before heading to look for something a bit more challenging.
Ended up surfing a fast left over head by our selves for ages but we created a little interest and were joined by
4 shortboarders. Was another good day!
Lets see what tomorrow brings!?!
Got a picture of you today Brendan.. .. [your day 3] .. sorry it's a bit fuzzy.
I had a great Easter Sunday today and it started of with a quick visit at Trigger Brothers at Pt Leo and checked out their new SUP's.. New Bamboo deck boards and a new Red Back soft top learners board.
I parked way up at Flinders Pier and paddled down past Dirty Harry to where Ross, Brendan, Peter and Andy were already getting some great waves.
Ross letting a good one pass by.
Brendan was ripping.
I was buggered when I got back to the pier after a few hours of great waves.
DJ
Day 4...More fun waves. You know those mythical spots you hear stories about but never
get to surf...well today it was on but small. The moons are aligning and hopefully we will
get it better and bigger in the coming weeks. It has been over 6 years since this spot last
saw decent waves. Fingers crossed!
Hopefully the agro surfer is there again so I can say hi!
