first light

Determined to beat the wind, high tide, first light....shoulder high fun

double check

I've not been in for a few days, checked it today and just too much wind to make it worth the effort, guys couldn't make it down the ... more

Room for a few more

Winters the new spring, as the last two weekends have seen record numbers of surfers beefing up the line-ups. Only the ... more

Jetboards Arghhhhh!

Bob Montgomery's invented another crazy machine to put in the line up, Jetboards, for those flat days, and days you just wish ... more

Ritchie Vaculik at The Right, WA

If you want to kill some time and get stoked check out the latest entries in ... more

Tractors surf and wanderers...

The characters that surfing attracts, had a long very random conversation with a guy today about Massey Ferguson ... more

Single fin and Honey Lugs

Shot of my yellow single fin, randomly came across it while searching my photos this morning.

A ... more

Looking skywards

Waves farking stunning since the start of December, and I'm starting to get surfed out, may be it's the cold? Shit, maybe I'm ... more

Shoulder to Shoulder

Everyone turned out this weekend, EVERYONE, there were faces about I recognised from way up country,  in-fact I know I'm ... more

The day the hail came down

Seemed like most of the swell headed past the southwest today until the tide dropped in the afternoon, what was I ... more

New swell, Loads of wind, Hollow low tide...

Did you lose a Camera at Tolcarne, Newquay, last Friday the 16th? If so I may be able to reunite you, ... more

Godrevy firing...almost

Been at my desk since 6am this morning, didn't unlock the door until 10.30am as the first client came round for a meeting, by ... more

It's going to FIRE!

Checked the charts and forecasts again, this weekends going to be HUGE! With one forecast predicting 80ft+ seas on Sunday off ... more

Is it too much to ask?

Can the charts be right, biggest swell of the winter so far on the cards for Sunday/Monday coming? Or is it going to do the ... more

2 lucky breaks

Sunday, a slow day, no need to rush with the tide going low around 11.20 and the wind howling, everywhere is going to be a closeout ... more

Morning promise, and get replying!

I woke up early this morning, amped, powered up the PC coffee in hand, opened the curtains, and had to stop, grab ... more

Sand dredging the river-mouth, could it create a classic left and right?

There's been a couple of dredgers in Hayle estuary for a while now deepening ... more

Frozen Mushrooms

Just when you think its freezing as ever someone puts things in perspective, in this case ... more

Wetsuit love

 With the coldest night of the winter just gone (yet again) at -12C in North Cornwall and -7C in Penzance, I can confirm that ... more

Frozen Salt

Sunny, but how cold? With small rock pools of sea water still frozen solid at midday around Godrevy and Padstow harbour frozen ... more

Could the crash, cause the rebound of the English shaper?

With all this economic woe about, it got me thinking, as cheap imported asian boards ... more

Zero complaints

Saturdays swell pumped, if not in a catchable way! So we figured lets go for a road trip and hope we can score a cool point ... more

The Dither

Its pumping, clean overhead offshore, if it wasnt for the cold, it feels like a hurricane swell. I check it out for a bit, but the ... more

Bootless...

We're up and off heading for a high tide bank hoping it'll still be sucking in some of yesterdays southerly swell, epic, no, but ... more

Happy New Year for 2009

Just a quick line to wish you all a Happy New Year and hope you scored the swell today, it turned out to be a fun one, I ... more