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GPA said..

mazdon said..
city beach / floreat stretch is mental right now. solid double head close outs, and oh so much movement...




Edit: i just heard someone is missing off that stretch. hope it's a mistake and they're safe at home, and not that tried to go for a paddle and got in trouble

Swimmer at City Beach. Police report he made it back to shore safely... why the F would you go out there For a swim on a day like today...?!

Cheers, I'm glad

decent swimmer and been in ocean all my life, and immediately thought "yeah, nah drowning material" when I watched a couple of sets unload there today. Not in the least bit friendly

got a few in the kiddy corner near a port tonight though - fun

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mocha1 said..
Road trip down to Greenrooms neck of the woods.
600+ ks for 20 waves, a few keepers, hard work, 12ks of paddling, glad I took the Gath when the hail and rain squalls hit, some whiteouts from squalls and wave spray.
Beers tasted fab on the way home.
7/10

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Souwester said..
Fun wedgy metro novelty beach break at dawn with no one out - where was everyone??

be there in a couple of hours...

lunchtime cruise with the wind just starting to come in

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Greenroom said..

mocha1 said..
Road trip down to Greenrooms neck of the woods.
600+ ks for 20 waves, a few keepers, hard work, 12ks of paddling, glad I took the Gath when the hail and rain squalls hit, some whiteouts from squalls and wave spray.
Beers tasted fab on the way home.
7/10

Too many mals and SUPs there, it would be hard work to steal one from that pack on a shortboard. It did look fun though that's for sure.

Looks like a long grey shape moving through the lip on one of the photos above.

Banks everywhere at the moment. Great start to the season.

Yes. I'm sure your froth will be near mine.

That's nigh on impossible at the moment. Even if you go the death bank.

Two rocks have the rangers on patrol today

No weed where I ventured, but a decent rip keeping the punters honest. Same, 6.5/10

Saturday for me was not too bad semi glass off mid morning
sunday layday
this morning was quite good but the crowd was out of control, surfed for about an hour an half not bad ,, family went out this arvo so I went for an arvo which was super super fun surprising and uncrowded on the bank I was in for about an hour

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Ctngoodvibes said..
Y the crowds are still descending on out front is beyond me ?? packed to the brim even late arvo

I think we are getting old, had a chat to me mate about this last week, yanchep now has 10-15000 people living between there and 15 minutes south, mullaloo to mindarie has about 20,000 or more if you include 10km inland along there.
Where we would go as kids to 20,s has a local boardriders club with around 50-60 members ( and growing fast) so those waves nowadays are not really worth 45 minutes in a car unless it's midweek and out of covid unemployment.......
If we head south the town of Mandurah had a population of under 5000 until the mid 90,s I'm not sure where you would say Mandurah stops now but from secret harbour to south of Mandurah there is over 25000 people within 10km of the coast likely waaaay more during holidays and weekends.
This means a lot of the day trip or early morning worth the drive spots are effectively written off as they all now have 100 or more locals.
Places I surfed for ever and ever with no more than 4-6 along the beach you can barely get a carpark on the sand since they opened Indian Ocean drive.
This means anyone within 15-20 minute drive from the trigg-Leighton stretch just goes "down the road " and hopes for the best..............

The crowd this morning was well out of hand, it was decent with good waves but just kids in the way, people bailing boards, people calling off others on set waves and going straight.
there was a body boarded out there who dropped in on three or four different people, he was old enough to know better however no one is allowed to shake the little turds up anymore.

In essence we have lost any sense or a quiet place, we have lost every sense of etiquette, and as such people carry that attitude with them when they paddle out everywhere.

This is why down south and up north crew hate long weekends holidays and the like as their bastions or hope and solitude are destroyed then further someone who has been there once, taken there by a friend of a friend takes photos and puts them on insta, Facebook, and anywhere else they can, naming spots and sharing maps.
within a week there are 100-1000 people going to go surf that wave....

We have lost our way

The crowd factor is becoming more important than the combo of wind/swell/tide
If it's too crowded to surf it may as well be flat

You guys are on a roll.

The availability of cheap wetties and boards, combined with 'the vid', has further compounded the crowds. While the city had been effectively shut down, there were bugger all options.
And you fellas make it look all so much fun! Hell, even the lulls were enabling the kookiest first timers to get into the line up. Some funny results, sure, but just stoking the fire... Let's just hope some winter pastings will scare off a lot of them.
And has the general public forgotten about the men in grey suits? We need the media to do a commemorative story on a victim.

It's out in the sh!ttiest of sh!t for me, just to get some peace.

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Razzonater said..

Ctngoodvibes said..
Y the crowds are still descending on out front is beyond me ?? packed to the brim even late arvo

I think we are getting old, had a chat to me mate about this last week, yanchep now has 10-15000 people living between there and 15 minutes south, mullaloo to mindarie has about 20,000 or more if you include 10km inland along there.
Where we would go as kids to 20,s has a local boardriders club with around 50-60 members ( and growing fast) so those waves nowadays are not really worth 45 minutes in a car unless it's midweek and out of covid unemployment.......
If we head south the town of Mandurah had a population of under 5000 until the mid 90,s I'm not sure where you would say Mandurah stops now but from secret harbour to south of Mandurah there is over 25000 people within 10km of the coast likely waaaay more during holidays and weekends.
This means a lot of the day trip or early morning worth the drive spots are effectively written off as they all now have 100 or more locals.
Places I surfed for ever and ever with no more than 4-6 along the beach you can barely get a carpark on the sand since they opened Indian Ocean drive.
This means anyone within 15-20 minute drive from the trigg-Leighton stretch just goes "down the road " and hopes for the best..............

The crowd this morning was well out of hand, it was decent with good waves but just kids in the way, people bailing boards, people calling off others on set waves and going straight.
there was a body boarded out there who dropped in on three or four different people, he was old enough to know better however no one is allowed to shake the little turds up anymore.

In essence we have lost any sense or a quiet place, we have lost every sense of etiquette, and as such people carry that attitude with them when they paddle out everywhere.

This is why down south and up north crew hate long weekends holidays and the like as their bastions or hope and solitude are destroyed then further someone who has been there once, taken there by a friend of a friend takes photos and puts them on insta, Facebook, and anywhere else they can, naming spots and sharing maps.
within a week there are 100-1000 people going to go surf that wave....

We have lost our way

Just found this. Seemed appropriate.
Only 7 years ago. Decent Scarbs with maybe 20 or so in the water.