The Tub Filled Up

Session	Sunday 17 January 2010
Location	Mid Curly
INS	Toohers, Eatkens, Oompa
Wave height	2ft on the high tide
Wind direction	None
Crowd	15
Rabbometre	1 stars
Water temp	21
Incidents	Nasty shorie close-out developed as the tide hit high.
Other

Waves!

The lads were finally able to venture in after what had been a miserable summer of surf to date. Toohers recounted, having consulted his meticulously documented surf log, that by this time last year he had been in for 6 pre-work surfs. This year he had only bothered to get down twice. Once to not even get in, and the other time to get dumped for half an hour in the shore break.

The ambient conditions were nothing short of ‘Marvellous’ as R Benaud would intone. Whilst the waves were nowhere near epic, it was the warm summer conditions that were irreplaceable, with good though not great slides to be had.

Later in the session as the tub filled up with the rising tide, and the waves stopped breaking out back, nasty shories began to catch out the unwary. Both Toohers and Oompa felll victim. Oompa was stupidly cajoled into his by the cat-calling Eatken and Toohers to which he copped a rollicking thumping sandblast before being spat out. I had witnessed Toohers early paddled for what seemed an eternity before he capitulated into a low banked closeout.

After some great early sliders the lads found that having paddled ferociously before finding their feet that they had somehow all but paddled into shore…quite perplexing as it did not seem that much of a paddle…you would stand to find yourself quickly confronting the demons of a 2 foot closeout not far from shore. As Eatkens commented..”it would not be worth doing a neck in these trifling conditions’…. 

Post session the lads found time for brekkie at Curlies to discuss the big isssues and keep Eatkins company with his family having escaped his nuances for the week to Sawtell.