I heart WOTD
"You'll never experience the ultimate if you go the west side."
Not true VJ. You could come across GaryG....
Simple, eh?
Great shot of you at P'Pass. Though the WOTD wave looks similar it's 2,000kms away from Pohnpei.
Sick wave today. Any chance of getting WOTD posted at 2560x1440 ;-)
Not sure.
Actually, I just assumed it is without giving it much thought.
Think it's set the theme for the rest of my Monday.
"Think it's set the theme for the rest of my Monday."
What, to talk like Joe Turpel?
But...reasons! Yesterday, the inaugural Thirroul Music Festival was held and unbeknownst to me until very recently, my office was one of the venues. Cornrow the organiser neglected to tell me that till Friday.
Seven bands were due to play in here all arvo, so kids amused, dog fed, I came down here to join in. First person I see is Cornrow who tells me I just missed an incredible band, Ester Poly, and all the references he cited were bands I dig. Old Rick Snowden was here, Swellnet's newest contributor, two of the bands on the bill are also on his record label. Beers are in order.
First band I see are a trio of middle-aged blokes giving voice to the angry teenager inside. Guitarist and vocalist singing through a veil of long hair, bass player channelling Ian Rilen, tatted and impassive, skull rings on his fingers stringing a menacing low end growl. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Through one window I can see the southerly turning the ocean surface into whitecaps, and through the other window the sun is streaming in and I get a clear view up to Kennedy's Hill AKA Millionaire's Row and hope that even though the town is changing the new residents appreciate impromptu and semi-illegal gatherings such as this.
Many more bands and beers to boot. I smokebombed around nine and shuffled home. Walked back down to work this morning dreading the state of the room, there were 50-60 people in here getting loose when I left, but Cornrow and Rick and whoever else returned it to normal, a plain, white-walled office and it's like last night didn't even happen.
Except for the hangover that is.
Top day, Stu. Cheers for trusting our fruity fam with your space. More should be happening down there.
After all the negative feedback about a certain barreling lefthander in Victoria, Stu took it on board, reversed the image and captioned it as Indo.
And people still question the poor bastard.
Not only that, I also had to convince Soli Bailey to surf switchfoot so that when I reversed the image he was in his natural stance. He wasn't easily swayed but I got there.
And you pricks still question me!
Without:
a) Getting a call about copyright infringement from Gra and Bainy
b) Exhausting my cliche limit for the week
Because:
b) That's what Peter Jovic used as a filename.
Squeezing into a still wet 7/4 steamer with commensurately freezing cold booties , gloves and hood .
Getting face fulls of icy foam paddling through that choppy rip section.
Watching the ends of your hair snap freeze then just snap.
Reaching the slab pre-rooted because you’ve had to paddle 15 kilos of wet rubber through that chop whilst your body shuts down your muscles in an attempt to stay warm.
Held up in the lip by wind and fatigue .Go immediately over the falls in your neoprene sumo suit. Snapping board . Float like a blue bottle back to shore .
Wash up face down on the icey shore utterly ruined.
Get raped by a lonely and tragically myopic elephant seal .
That’s how I imagine that session going down.
Wow! That sounds like my usual winter surf Blowy. You nailed it.
(except for the seal)
ha ha 100% nailed it.
Thats exactly how it was surfing down Tassie West Coast as a grommet, only bit you left out is after every wave the offshore rains down like hail for what seems like 30 seconds, feeling like needles piecing any exposed skin.
And yeah, luckily never had the seal experience either.
.... you had it easy blowin, when I was a grommet we lived under rock at the bottom of a frozen lake, we had to get up at 1030 at night before going to bed to spend all day in mill.
..... and you try to tell the young people of today, will they believe you?
To Boxing day WOTD caption competiton]
[vote] tbb : "More than just a Pretty Face"
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Crew salute swellnet WOTD brains trust & wish for a full on Boxing Day Bash
Wave of the Day ~~~~^~~~~/(`~~~~/(C......./(C`..[wotd )
Huey's WOTD Xmas Claim: (Did I do that?)
"So jealous of epic swellnet surf safari postcards ..never miss WOTD"... SurfsUp!
Epic photo of a great moment.
That’s the thing about surfing....options.
If you’re a footy player standing in front of the posts you’ll kick it as straight and sure as possible , but with surfing there’s no goal posts , so it’s up to you what you want to achieve.
A prolonged carve whilst you feel that rail seer , a drive back into the pocket with an eye on the foam and the intent to belt it or even just the sharp karate kick finish as old mate here is going to town on. - set the rail then finish short with the spray throwing punctuation and the potential to release the fins if you like.
Who knows ? Maybe with the way that pocket looks set to double up he’s going to stick his arm in the wall and get a little bit of wedge tube lovin ‘ as it stands and throws on the reef now that he’s spent his speed in a most satisfying manner .Either way it looks sick .
No rules , speed , flow and fluid dynamism .
Surfing fucking rules.
That day looks dreamy.
Yea it was from the 29th of Nov last year. I remember it because I sometimes screen shot the WOTD on my phone and use them as wallpapers/backgrounds. (Hope you don't mind)
Smallest barrel ever! Stuffed in there nicely, what a compact wave ha.
Love those types of waves, mmmm, there are a couple of local ones like that
The wave of the day does it for me big time. Nice work Steen Barnes , Shaun Anderson and Swellnet.
In one photo you've encompassed everything nice about surfing. If I was a wanker I'd say that it was perfect except for the fact he is in a wetsuit. Which it is , it's perfect .....except for the fact he's in a wetsuit.