Part Deux.

Part II as promised. Steve took over the camera whilst I went back in to enjoy the mornings remainders.

Walking to the temple.

Getting there. Just need to learn to it with style!

Autumn textures.

Big thanks to Steve for the shots. You took some beauties!

Smoke on the water.

Stoked and speculating!

A day at the beach. Part I.

After a lake like past week Saturday's sunshine and wonky waves came well received...

Unknown bottom turning

After a week coughing a new one Steve was frothing to get back in the surf...

and had the grin to show it!

Uni fresher and Cornwall import Dan throwing some.

Newquay shapemaking!

Steve taking the drop in a tad too literally.

Boards and Boats. Part II to come...

Bump...

If you click on the image to enlarge, zoom in, squint real hard and turn your head approx 45 degrees to the right, you can just about make out 3 wee black dots floating about. Dan, Steveo and myself making the most of the sun and good winds early doors... (Pic from WestbaySurfboards)

After no swell and northerly winds dominating things locally since the start of the week was real nice to paddle out last night and this morning to something with a little more umph again. True it was closing out 9/10 and there was still more than abit of chop in it but at least the summer doldrums aren't here quite yet...

Escape to the North West...

The combination of a decent north-westerly swell, westerly winds and a free weekend led Aaron, Steveo and myself out west to find the promise of waves in some easterly headlands. A few waves were had on Friday night but it was Saturday's forecast that had Steveo pointing out to see...

Après-surf midnight Barbeque...

Saturday morning. The wave thats elusiveness inspired the trip, remained elusive and was categorically not doing its thing...

It soon became clear that the swell hadn't turned up as expected. Friday nights spot was even smaller than the night before and so the search began...

A few miles and a headland later some windswept rights were found...

The boys wasted no time getting suited and booted...

Guns don't kill people, currents do. (Check out the bullet hole below the A)

Aaron beneath the cliffs...

As the morning went on the swell kept growing too...

Steveo throwing buckets on a small wan...

and trying to the beat the section on something a little bigger.

The exploration of Irish mountains and molehills...

Awog on a wave that always looked like a closeout but went on forever...

Whitewater floating...

Midface on a green'un

After getting some waves we started making our way back east and home but couldn't help but take a final detour to one last spot we thought would have a wave. The view from over the dune...

Going right through the Ammophilia...

While Aaron decided to enjoy the waves from the dune and I ponced about with a camera...

Stevesky spent his afternoon pulling into as many little shorebreak closeouts he could find.

So much so that I could even make a collage from it. Thomas Smyth presents Stevey's Guide to Pulling (in).

Little Windows...

Made the most of a little lunchtime window of less onshore and dribbly waisthigh waves today. The warming water, abundance of little fun waves and sunshine definately made it worth heading out for.

The Westbay at Westbay

Steveo getting his cross-step on

Wait a second. I'm the longboarder should I not be the one practicing this?

9'1/ 6'0/ 4'3 (colours may vary...)

Dan in the pocket

Stevesky backlit

Making the most

Yours truly lining up a lump

Wham, Bam bodyboarding Dan

The end of a fun night...

Had a wee golden hour session with Dan and Stevesky whilst Dan's wee bro Jack stayed on the beach and took a few snaps with his new toy! (cheers for the shots!) Wasn't huge and more than a tad lumpy and bumpy but one of those unexpected sessions that turned out to be way more fun than it looked from the carpark!

Back in the Saddle...

Yours truly on a from a Uni publicity shoot thing a couple of weeks back...

A weeks not a long a time to be out of the water but it had felt like ages since I had last been surfing. Maybe it was because my last session was far from great or that the lads had been out almost daily whilst I'd been busy or away but I was feeling more than a bit rusty and apprehensive, especially as I was heading out to surf some small, pretty rubbish looking lefts. Fortunately I stuck it out, pulled on the suit and actually managed to find a few pretty long cruisey rides. And as I walked back up the beach studying the shadow of my board cast by the moonlight I realised some of the stoke had bee rekindled...

Sun, Surf, Beer and a Barbeque

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

Saturday night's aprés surf entertainment, Cahalog O'Hare (Go on, do your ears and favour and give it a listen!)

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.