Champagnekate Heaven!

Old Bar Combi Festival - where too many combis are barely enough!
SM

Where were you?

I musta looked at that lookout 50 times today. First was with coffee. That was when Husband decided he and Surferboy needed to go out and put their mark on those Red Head waves. As soon as they hit the surf, 6 guys paddled out... making it quite the crowd.

That's what you get on a long weekend on the Mid North Coast I guess. Needless to say, I bided my time. I looked. I looked again, but still there were way too many men carving and sliding up and down some very magic waves. Good on them, I thought. Too big for me.

Too gnarly.

Too steep.

But I thought I'd give it a shot anyway!

Mind you, once the nor'wester whipped up and everyone else left to go and watch the AFL grandfinal I could hardly sit on my arse and do nothing..!

I paddled out downstream from my son and a couple of locals and helped myself to some screamers. (Later, Surferboy was heard to say - "First I knew she was out there was when she took off on that almighty righthander..." Husband will probabaly complain that I embelished that quote - but I only added one word...almighty,ok?!)

Anyway, you get the gist. Red Head. All day. Loving it.

SM

All in a day's surf

I'll tell you something but you have to keep it quiet, ok? Don't tell anyone but... Red Head is roolly good at the moment.

Ok, it might not be classic good but if it were classic good the whole of Hallidays Point would be there!

As it was The Grommie, Franbaby, champagnekate, and yours truly had a long and pleasant spell in the surf this morning. It was a perfect morning with nothing to do but surf... it must be holiday time! Like summer it was - but better cause the nor'easter didn't arrive!

Plenty of tourists arrived though... But at least they had the decency and respect to let the MOB have the best of it before they entered the water. They lined up sitting on the shore - a dozen or so of them, with their boards in their laps getting all sunburned and squinty until the MOB were completely and finally spent. Even The Grommie eventually got out! Then the tourists respectfully asked permission to go out and catch a few waves, and promised they wouldn't tell anyone about it. The MOB conferred, agreed that this would be acceptable and champagnekate gave them her blessing. Generous, huh?

I think that's how it went.

Remember? Sshhh...
SM

The locals

Noticed a few Redheadians making the most out of the north east swell this morning. First out there was Surferboy and his mate, and later in the morning I spied The Grom, and Pirate Jules and her boys. It was windy on land but there was a little sunny, smooth patch of water with a gentle lefthander right in the locals corner. (Now I sound like a Bra Boy! Of course foreign surfers are welcome, they just gotta know when the waves are on... They're gone now, sou'easter's up ;)

By the time i got out there it was just me and my boogie boardy mate. He wasn't a local but i let him stay anyway. It's ok to let the odd foreigner in y'know. Just as long as they dont try and overrun us.

Don't upset the locals ok?!

SM

Another day in Paradise....

I awoke to a beautiful sunny sky , the kind of morning you just want to race to the beach and hop on a board with the girls.......
Pull up at the carpark, looks small but I could feel the Surf God pulling me towards the water..
Watch the dolphins frolicking while I wait for  another surfermum or two to show...
Sun streaming down warming my bones, gotta get in that beautiful clear water.... ( do you wish you were there????)
Julie and Michelle rock up , 5 mins later we are paddling out .....ahhhhhhh the smile gets bigger......gotta love our lives.......

NEWS !!! The surf got bigger and better! The young pirate lass jumped up fast , crouched down low, and cut across the waves. She was AWESOME!!  And she did it again and again!
She caught more waves yesterday than the last 2 years.......must have been those tips she picked up surfing at Seal Rocks last weekend. I even heard her comment on a nice 2 ft wave..... NAH not big enough she said (WTF?)

Rumour has it there may soon be a webcam positioned on top of a roof in Seascape...........