teahupoo tow in surfing - highlights from yesterdays session

[nousd]

^again, used to...best wave I've had at Wreck Bay was a right tho..fast & hollow.
no-one on here to exacerbate crowds, so Swissdub:
I've often surfed the sucks on the northside of Black Point...no doubt yu surf those,
never asked the locals their names: I call em Cones, Mull Point (straight out from sewer pipe)
the little point & then, the more popular left, Pipeline (how good does it get?).
The crowd disappears when it gets a strong south swell in there eh?
Like surfing Red Sands (aka Red Rocks, it's original name), Kinghorn, LobsterHole,
the peak off Werri Point & Indicators of course
but one place I have yet to surf, that I've seen classic,
is that left off the cliffs to north of Kiama Harbour...you ever surfed that?

@ vertx....Mystics because of train? Such an unusual wave isn't it?
Closest I can think of is Dolphin Beach near Moruya or Duranbah.

Haha it's like name-dropping but I haven't even mentioned my fav waves.

@finji...you drooling mate?

[finji]

only pics will make me drool, but i think i can imagine. f you.

[nousd]

that's why no pics...I'm not that much of a tnuc.





looking at some now

[vertx]

did you ever get to go out at aussie pipe (black rock)

Yeah too many times haha like sd5 said though I can't handle those crowds anymore

sd5 is indicators the right behind Werri pool with all the backwash? Surfed there once or twice but never knew the name...

and Mystics because I love a fat wedgy left that's always consistent and only around 3hrs down the coast, plenty of fun times had out the mystos

Here's one of the K bomb for you finj



Was like 4 years ago...

[vertx]

that's why no pics...I'm not that much of a tnuc.





looking at some now

Put 'em up! I'm in need of a mind surf haven't been for a wave in a week or so

[nousd]

Indicators is the little, backwashy beach near Kiama showground that cops south swell...was called that cos, in days before freeway, yu got to cop what to expect further down the coast.

@finji, come out & see for yourself...not posting any surfjerkoff pix...sounds like your leash wrist is overused already.

actually it's onshore slop here too...it's why I'm on here.

imagine NY freezing slop...ha ha, that's why comps are jokes.

[vertx]

This ones of Deadmans in Manly that last real big swell we had for this winter, you start to see the scale of the shot when you see how small the guy on the shoulder is



Picture is from good man Mark Clinton, he takes some really sick flicks check him out eye candy all day long

http://mclinton92.tumblr.com/

[vertx]

Indicators is the little, backwashy beach near Kiama showground that cops south swell...was called that cos, in days before freeway, yu got to cop what to expect further down the coast.

@finji, come out & see for yourself...not posting any surfjerkoff pix...sounds like your leash wrist is overused already.

actually it's onshore slop here too...it's why I'm on here.

imagine NY freezing slop...ha ha, that's why comps are jokes.

surfjerkoff what are you on about haha

[vertx]

wrist leashes are for kooks, bicep leashes 4 lyf

[nousd]

yeah but don't tell finj

cop this mate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Ci6p8_SQY
b4 the tow-ins got onto it
not that heavy really
& it ain't South Oz

[vertx]

Agreed

Some mates recently came back from south oz, scored big time as usual for down there, everyone I've talked to who's been there says it's an entirely different world down in the dessert.

[nousd]

confession:
I piked surfing Blackfellas at 18' plus, with bombies breaking all the way out to Waldgrave Island
excuse:
no one else around
a kilometre paddle
kids in the car
just about to jump in
when i turned & saw their eyes

& some poor sod masticated by a white pointer the next year out there,
evenso
I piked.
(and grewup)

[vertx]

understandable, surfing solo is dicey, especially when it's got size, and call me pussy but I'd rather surf a nice 2 - 4ft bowly reefy and chill out with mates than surf anything with size these days..

[finji]

haha why would you bring your kids with you? you were just gonna leave them sat in the car while you went and enjoyed the surf?!

Is Aussie Pipe the same wave as Supers?

also, UK has some gems

Rileys:


Bumbaloids




that vid is pretty sick, though a bit kinda 'arty' check it out though..

[3rdeye]

Here's my local:



Have you done much surfing up this way sd5? Aroung Byron or the mighty Lennox point? I don't surf but used to bodyboard a bit, don't get in the water very much these days, shocking. Thinking about taking up longboarding this spring/summer if I get the motivation going

[vertx]

Is Aussie Pipe the same wave as Supers?

Nah different, Blackrock is in Jervis Bay and Supers is at Bawley Point.

that vid is pretty sick, though a bit kinda 'arty' check it out though..

Huuuuge fan of Mickey Smith, some of my favorite films are Against the Grain and ABC.

[nousd]

@3rdi
Byron nowdays...your kidding..with 600 japanese paddleboarders at the Pass
(let alone all the junkbeat collective & psytrance producers on their goatboats )
When I go up the far north coast I surf the Ledge at Angourie, South Wall, Boulders,
outside Lennox, if it's on, & Broken Head then skip up to Needledicks.
Would only go to Byron for Sunday at the Beachie or I heard yu were playing.
Defo get back in the water mate & get down to Sindey soon.

@ Finj. It's a 4000 km + roundtrip to Blackfellas (find Elliston, Eyre Peninsular on an atlas)
I was taking the kids away on a trip before the family split thru divorce...
wouldna been too good drowning & leaving them on a deserted coastline
I like the look of that Reilly's...better than Porthleven.

[shades of blue]

did you ever get to go out at aussie pipe (black rock)

if you have to drive through an aboriginal reserve to get to it and take a half hour or so walk after parking up then i think i've been there....

( couple hours drive south of sydney )

[shades of blue]

@3rdi
Byron nowdays...your kidding..with 600 japanese paddleboarders at the Pass
(let alone all the junkbeat collective & psytrance producers on their goatboats )
When I go up the far north coast I surf the Ledge at Angourie, South Wall, Boulders,
outside Lennox, if it's on, & Broken Head then skip up to Needledicks.
Would only go to Byron for Sunday at the Beachie or I heard yu were playing.
Defo get back in the water mate & get down to Sindey soon.

i surfed byron for about 6 months in 1998.. thankfully it wasn't like that ^^^