Waves this morning

[slicktrigger]

Oi you lot,

Did anyone catch that swell this morning? I was surfing up near the spit around 6am. Small, glassy, uncrowded and wicked weather.

Awesome way to start a Wednesday.

[meat]

Yeah i did that yesterday, got up nice and early and had great fun yesterday morning at broadbeach.

ps. should i feel safer with 20 odd dolphins around or not. cause there were tons of em round yesterday.
Its still scary when they pop out not 3 feet away from ya.

[ljw]

Got some nice waves at Palmy Tuesday morning.

As for the dolphin thing, I've seen sharks swimming with pods of dolphins so it sometimes makes me nervous when they hang around.

[booya]

Anyone catch the northern beachies this morning? Broady is out of radio range for a week.

Palmy was crystal clear and shaping up far better than the weekend waves. Lefts mostly and a few hollow ones.

[yewwww!]

up north was pretty ordaniary. nazz was looking alright but to my suprise, out of all the northan beachies, surfers has been looking like its got the best on offer for the early morning. its weird huh..... but yeah, cant beat the wheather, cyrstal clear water and nice little fun waves just peeling off, can never get bored of that. later

[booya]

stronger and more south wind this morning. burlz was makin like a lake. theres still a smashable wave around though

[yewwww!]

lets hope that this "tropical low" keeps comeing our way and we get some more swell. just out of interest, did anyone happen to be at the spit on the saturday of that massive swell? anyone see those dudes get swept off the rock wall?

[Cazza]

nah yewwww i didnt see them get swept off, did it actually happen? shit that would hurt ay? i mean i complain when i get washed on to the rocks let alone get washed off rocks on to more rocks :shock:

[B]

lets hope that this "tropical low" keeps comeing our way and we get some more swell. just out of interest, did anyone happen to be at the spit on the saturday of that massive swell? anyone see those dudes get swept off the rock wall?

I didn't see the guys get swept off the rock wall but I was filming off the end of the sand pumping jetty, in the arvo, and off the rockwall in the morning, there was only one guy out the morning and about 5 out in the arvo pretty solid.

The Spit - Saturday, March 6, 2004 (in the morning)
http://www.mattbrockie.com/paddle_over.jpg
http://www.mattbrockie.com/perfection.jpg
The Spit - Saturday, March 6, 2004 (in the arvo)
http://www.mattbrockie.com/empty_01.jpg
http://www.mattbrockie.com/pike_duckdive.jpg
http://www.mattbrockie.com/random.jpg
http://www.mattbrockie.com/sam.jpg

[xfactor]

wow.. i thought the coast would've been all junk on mar 6. the spit looks real clean and rideable. just getting out would be a bit trciky. unless you jump off the rockwall.

i didnt even know the spit could handle that size! wonder how straddy reacted to the swell on that day.

Sick pictures btw!!

[yewwww!]

strad was poo. the padle was MEGA scetch as well. the surge was going up and along the whole rock wall it was so big. but yeah the spit was hardly surfable either. when i looked at it in the morning it was anyway. i didnt get to see it in the arvo but its looking alrite in those pics. later

[dopey]

Hey B, awesome pics! Any chance that I could grab a couple of the original/high res photos off ya? The second morning shot, and the first arvo shot would look pretty awesome printed out, I reckon.

Cheers,

- Dave

[B]

Hey B, awesome pics! Any chance that I could grab a couple of the original/high res photos off ya? The second morning shot, and the first arvo shot would look pretty awesome printed out, I reckon.

Cheers,

- Dave

Sorry Dave these are actually frame grabs from video footage so the quality isn't great. but yeah i wish i had a higher res version.

B.

[craig]

great pics dude

[yewwww!]

nah yewwww i didnt see them get swept off, did it actually happen? shit that would hurt ay? i mean i complain when i get washed on to the rocks let alone get washed off rocks on to more rocks :shock:

yeah bro sure did happen, i was one of em. we were out at the end of the wall watching it all happen, just the power of what was rolling through out there. then just herd this mega bang and look side ways and bout 3ft of white wash just coming down the wall at us. so i just went ohhhhh fuck and tryed to out run it and just got picked up, dragged for bout 10 metre's and off the side right down to the bottom of the wall. shitest day becasue it fucken hurt and i didnt get to surf the sunday madness that was on offer. of well what your get for being stupid i guess. live and lern..... later :cry: