I heart WOTD
Reminds me of a day here last Feb.
TC Marcus swell.
6ft, Bluewater, perfect sunshine .
I had a gnarly rock-off and punch through the bank and was sitting wide, collecting my breath.
Wave just like that came straight to me.
No-one within an olympic swimming pool near me.
Well, I thought, looks like this one is mine.
Big blue cave. Sky shining overhead. Warm water. Perk arse presenting.
I’m sure surfing can get better than that but I’m not really sure how?
Maybe if it was a left!
After months and months of brownwater gurgle, that looks like something I only barely remember.
Just for general interest, I’m pretty sure the gorgeous photo is from the Cyclone Seth swell.
DudeSweetDudeSweet wrote:
Freeride- Was your calf not responding at all?
Barely.
Could not lift my bodyweight on it at all, for eg if I tried to do a single leg calf raise.
Is the wave pool in todays pic powered by an xc falcon? Smokey bugga
This pool looks 100 times better than that
shitty Uburn surf, a swell you can see coming actually trees, no concrete, no wire and no chlorinated water, but still i think it would get old pretty quick, just that whole paying for waves, time limit, amusement park vibe.
Give me the real thing anyday
Tell me that’s steam? Or is that a one off mechanical failure? Surely it’s not puff’n billy every set? Looks like a wave pool designed by George Miller.
Hard work for our Surf Lakes God...having to 'Bob up and down all day long!'
We see another Wave Pool God unleash his smoke'n'mirrors beast.
https://www.swellnet.com/sites/default/files/styles/swellnet_large_wm_6…
"Occy paddled over to worship the Central Wavemaking Device...
Christened him or her or both..."Bob the Wave God". (Bobby is also Ok!)
Signed & sealed the deal by writing # We Love Bob # on the side of the Plunger!
We : As in Blowins...must respect [ Surf Lakes Locals Only Wave God Bob ]
But is it official?
Huey : "Sounds fair enough to retire all these Goats out to their wave pastures!"
"Law of the Sea equally applies to Wave Pools, Lakes,Tubs, Basins & when rinsing out Vegemite Jars!"
https://wavepoolmag.com/the-unheard-music-of-surf-lakes-stone-in-a-pond…
Alternative tall tale...Wave God Bob was named after...
Bob : Pike / Evans / Davies / Cooper / Mc Tavish
Old School Qld long range forecaster / Weather God ...Lennox "BOB" Walker.
All worthy weathered Gods to us mere Mortals.
freeride76 wrote:
Reminds me of a day here last Feb.
TC Marcus swell.
6ft, Bluewater, perfect sunshine .
I had a gnarly rock-off and punch through the bank and was sitting wide, collecting my breath.
Wave just like that came straight to me.
No-one within an olympic swimming pool near me.
Well, I thought, looks like this one is mine.
Best feeling in the world.
Another good one of Wanto {i think}...if that's who i think it is he rips.
Jeez, todays wave of the day is literally doing my head in. Looks very Bula to me..I can't stop looking at it. Just sheer magic and a view that would get the adrenal glands working overtime!! Great shot.
Dyl Longbottom said :
The Predator is back!!
Stoked to get the big fellow Ed Blackwell get some bombs out his local today, riding the model I named after him.
He copped some beatings but kept going out back out until he made some with busted ribs, cuts under his eye and more haha.
A great day again and thanks to all the other locals for the good vibes
seventy two virgins will never stop a war but a hundred thousand hookers will beat the marine corp
goofyfoot wrote:
Where’s he been?
Apart from in a good paddock
haha classic
no idea who old mate is, but was thinking it's amazing how some old chargers can still mix it with the best of em... whilst clearly not displaying the peak of their... umm... performance equipment...
That place looked like pipe the first time i saw it with a fifteen to twenty foot swell. A few other hidden reefs that are also good nearby too.One is too deadly for Kerby Brown or the like...foamballing pit across a dry shelf for fifty to seventy metres. An hour walk too so you would be fucked if you came off which is highly likely.
However the first time i found out about this wave of wave of the day it was on a navy map marked "breaks heavily"..my brother stole the map from his university or school.Took me a few years before i went there, then surfed a righthand mini pointbreak nearby with a school mate and he started getting the heeby jeebies and went in. Suddenly a group of about thirty dolphins surrounded me and followed me on each wave i caught..amazing day.
Caught a bit of the Avengers while making the ungrateful spawn breaky this morning.
And I must say Jug is looking rather superheroesque in that shot. No board to be seen.
I'm liking it.
mattlock wrote:
Caught a bit of the Avengers while making the ungrateful spawn breaky this morning.
And I must say Jug is looking rather superheroesque in that shot. No board to be seen.
I'm liking it.
Isn't Spawn also a superhero?
I don't know Stu. There is to many in the Avengers for this old dud to keep up with.
DudeSweetDudeSweet wrote:
Bells is the original “Good from far but far from good” wave.
Far from good would be bad or poor. Anyone who thinks Bells is a poor or bad wave probably hasn't surfed there in conditions like the picture displays.
I’ve surfed Bells better than the photo and I’d call it OK. Far from good is laying it on a bit thick but it has a quirky ring to it . What I mean is that anyone who’d never been would perhaps get the wrong impression because the photos make it look way better than it actually is. Lineup shots make it look like J Bay to the uninitiated. It certainly isn’t J Bay.
For sure.
It’s just that I’m of the opinion that if a wave is of C grade standard for the majority of the days it breaks then I consider it a C grade wave.
Absolutely incredible. One of his best, how's the depth and light. Cracker!! Well done Tim.
Always thought Bells after surfing it back in the day when if the wave didnt
want to kill me or seriously beat me down I didnt want to surf it was a complete
hoax and a terriable waste of time and never went back. Now many decades
later I surfed it last year at a moderate size and realised its so easy that old
guys can still surf reasonably large waves and make a super easy take off get
great speed and do unreal swooping big turns and really enjoyed it. So now I
describe Bells as a place old big wave guys go to still surf big waves with ease.
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.