Uncomfortable odds - photo
It's another week off for Craig and another run of swell on the East Coast. These two events have coincided more than any man* of science would be comfortable with. When it comes to swell, holidays booked in advance are a roll of the dice, but Craig's hitting way above the odds. Haven't figured it out yet but there must be something else at play.
If you wanna know when he's next taking annual leave hit him up with an email.
For now, here are the photos from Craig's latest pay dirt.
*Or woman, of course.
Comments
arrrgh pretty jealous about that left
Good stuff Craig.
there was a time when running a pic of that lineup would have the shit beaten out of you.
Lotsa dudes on the shoulder in the third pic.
.....you mean that secret spot (that only breaks once in a blue moon) with a thousand houses overlooking it in the middle of a bustling tourist town on the South Coast of NSW....
Goodness gracious Australia is beautiful.
Yeah, it's ok.
I spose.
Seen worse:)
the left twas fast lots of wide ones
Had one of the best surfs of my life at that left about 20 years ago, was crowded though even back then.
Luckily timed the crowds with a mid-morning and early afternoon surf, peaked at about 30 but not when I was out. I had between 10-15 most part, but for an hours period each surf, under 10 and waiting for sets with 2 others in the end. Stoked.
Beautiful work craig
Been chased out by great white twice here
Well the title includes the words "the bush"!
And you are quite right, it sure aint a secret any more.
The sharks move along the beach and headlands there Arty - have done as long as I can remember- used to stay at a house opposite the bowlo on the beach side of the highway. I was out at the spot in the pic once with an old dude who proved to be Cyril ( Melb surfers may know the spot ) when a shark came along. I was 17. I had never seen a fin. I said WTF is that? Response, don't you move you little "beep beep". Its eyes are on the top of its head so it cant see you. If it goes under the water paddle your arse off.
I was hypnotised watching the fin. A few waves came by as I watched it come along and go past. I turned to talk to Cyril and found I was one of the last two out. The few people having got on one of the waves that went through while I and the other dude were watching. Bastards!
that is a top 10 wave, surfed it with a country boy in a cyclone swell, who could do effortless backhand off the lip 360's, maybe the monk in '83, its along paddle that wave and when you got to the end of it it opened up into a series of unreal peaks along the beach.
...aaannnd cue homesickness.
Homesickness... you bet. So many of those pics tugging at me, including a few that are within about 200m from my home back in Aus.
Am sure I ran into Craig once after trashing a new stick at stormy Mya breakwall, a few years back now.
Must console myself with some German beer, and prayers for a decent Euro snow season.
Even though these 'secret' spots are not secret, there is still plenty of gold out there.
Looks like he found a bit. A great piece of country.
many happy memories of driving all nighters from Jindabyne to chase swells there, camped out in the cold dark waiting for dawn.
Which car is yours free?
ah, twas an old EH disco........with a rusted out hole in the boot so you had to drive with all the windows down so as not to die from carbon monoxide poisoning.
bit chilly driving down from Jindy .
Started tripping up to here around 40 years ago - also in a EH - such a great wave at five feet but also fab on a plank at one foot - so many waves around this area, always had an awesome time :)) heaps of memories.
Steve, the scene I awoke to that morning was fogged in cold, still and eerie.
A real English feel in a foreign land, I arrived in the dark the night before, but what I saw was pure potential..
from pigeon house to the upper clyde?