Monday, 26 September 2011

Winds: SW 13. 16m. Spleene Board. Gap Session. Water: clean with murk from chop. Sporadic moon jellies out on second sandbar. Waves: rolly, but a butter day. Saw this seasons first devil ray! I like them because they like to jump too, and they swim unarmed! :)

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Winds: W 12, dead then N. 16m. Spleene Board. Attempted downwinder from Opal Beach to the Gap. Water: bit dark outside the sandbar. Moon jellies. Waves: calf high. Thunderstorms sapped the wind. It will happen someday.

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Winds: WSW 12-13. 16m. Spleene Board. Gap Session. Water: murk, but it was sunset. Waves: butter with slight chop. Wind came up near sunset. Sneaked a short session before nightfall. Saw Nick on the webcam, but he was packing up as I arrived. New strings for 16m work well. Transitioned over a school of large cow-nose rays....like surfing an argyle sweater!

Saturday, 3 September 2011

Winds: SE 20-50. 11m. Rogue Wave Board. Soundside Session. Water: gross. Tried to kiteboard in between bands of the tropical storm. I made it back in in time, but Jesse got blown out into the sound and lost his board. We spent a good deal of time swimming to him and dragging him and his kite back. Bailing system on 11m failed to work. That's it. I'm retiring that kite....rarely had a good session on it, anyway.

Wednesday, 31 August 2011

Winds SE 13. 16m. Rogue Wave Board. Gap Session. Water: murk from chop. Waves: hip high. Short session again due to thunderstorm rolling in. Haven't done wave work in a while! Awesome thing happened: a turtle came up for air right where I was getting into the water. His reaction was priceless! I hope I didn't startle him too much.

Monday, 29 August 2011

Winds: WSW 8-12. 16m. Spleene Board. Gap Session. Water: slight murk for most. Most salad gone. Waves: light chop, otherwise flat. Got in just in time to do a few tacks before the wind died. Oh well. That's August here.

Wednesday, 10 Aug 2011

Winds: SW 14. 16m. Spleene Board. Opal Beach Session. Water: pea soup. Waves: just a few hips. Smoother. Phillip snapped a line on his old 14m. At least it waited on the inbound tack. Not as good as yesterday, but I'll take anything I can get during this dry spell.