Had a photo of my own for this post but must've forgot to stick it on the hard-drive (d'oh!) Instead your gonna have to make too with this from bottom turn from the Picaresque Gallery
Spring feels like it may have sprug and the North Coast is starting to fill up again. Saturday Afternoon on the beach.
Lumpy, bumpy and a little bit onshore but it didn't seem to matter much to Jamie.
Who shot J.R.? (I did, albeit out of focus...)
Saturday also marked the first BBQ of the year
Sunset in the Village
Sunday dawned clean, bright and offshore.
Dan first out and lining up a roll
McG
Steve up for another weekend and another surf
Rights seemed to be the order of the day
Dan on a rail and another wave before work
Steve finding a favoured left
Setting up
The no so lost art of the drop-in
Steve got behind the lens for a bit too yesterday. Yours truly getting shut down in typical beachie fashion
It was Owen's first time out in a while and head over heels to be back in the water.
Black and Whitewash
And as the sun set on the surf...
The lights came up for Two Door Cinema Club.
There wasn't much a doing locally Saturday morning so Aaron, Steveo and myself decided to put the boards up top and hit the road.
Some unexpected weather caught a few off guard...
The few behind the windscreen and between the hedges
After checking a couple of beachbreaks which were clean but tiny we stayed on the flats hoping something was a doing
Rocky Right
but Aaron unimpressed...
Back on the road
and a North-west left nearly but not quite doing its thing
With time running out and not a wave surfed we again hit the road with the thought of a certain spot in mind. A view of the pigs back en route...
Stiff offshores, a set of small but clean lines, sunshine and crystal blue water was enough to set the boys hearts racing and Aaron's legs running over one last dune...
The gold over the hill. Far from macking but after a day of driving it was more than worth getting in for, especially Steve who was buzzing to be surfing (and ripping!) a wedging left again no matter how small...
The locals wishing us good Baaaaaaaye!
Aarons wagon on a different day and harder sand...
Morning dawned calm, cold and with a funky swell, a heck of a lot more than the forecasted 3ft @14s, followed by an epic evening sun filled glass off.
Steve (aka the goofy superstar) joined me for both high and low tide sessions. Here he is looking in anticipation for whats coming next.
The sun may have went down but the waves kept on coming
Last orders...
In a week when I felt I had largely missed out on waves today more than made up for it. Two super sessions, the first this morning on the push in funky/choppy waves a lot bigger than expected, (Must’ve been more than just a bit of northerly in the swell!) and again this evening on the drop but really clean, sunny, glassy and one of the better sessions I’ve had in a while. Seems that lately it’s been all about having your finger on the pulse, the onshores forecasted for all last week didn’t show and from the charts today wasn’t worth leaving the house for. Damn glad I did though…
Saturday dawned small, still and clean.
Things remained much the same for the first heat of the mens open
Where lots of pumping went on
and even more sinking...
Some were able to make the most of it.
About as performance as you could get considering the conditions
Not your typical contest shortboard (mmm....)
Good from a far but far from good.
The tide started to fill and onshores blow as the day drew to an end and the finals commenced
Yours truly representing Coleraine and stoked to be in a final
Pretty in Pink
Your eventual longboard winner Stephen Kelleher
Easkey bringing home the goods for UUC in the womens final ran alongside the longboard
Sun down on Strandhill signalled an alternative source of liquid entertainment
Collecting 3rd in the Longboard (Buzzing)
Goofy superstar Stephen Murray in his post heat interview
El Capitano gracing us with a few words of wisdom
UUC on tour...
The morning after the night before
Sunday morning. Contest over and not a ripple...
Cheers to NUIG, the ISA and all involved for a great contest and a HUGE shout to Lauren, Eugene and Emmett from UUC for making the weekend such a success.
