Monday wrap

Your correspondent managed to jag a few rather fun waist to chest high waves at the Bower around low tide. Manly was bigger and more intense looking when I went by a little before lunch, but I sorta felt like catching a few little ones at the Bower, so went there instead.

Wind was offshore there and in the south corner at Manly (which at one point was looking very tasty indeed).

Sadly, I don’t have any water snaps for you because my little water camera, after a couple years of faithfully accompanying me on virtually every surf, has blinked out. Salt build up in a seal that I hadn’t noticed.

Coming back through Manly, I was held up at the Corso lights, so I pointed my camera at the Bower and amazingly actually got a shot of someone on one of the little ones.

After getting out of the water, I happened to fall into conversation with a couple who I’d talked to early in the water. It turns out that they’re (among many other things) a couple of Normandy natives who are out from France doing the travelling around Oz and surfing thing. Fred and Aurelie Branger are into tandem surfing and SUP riding and like everyone, they have their own website called nalu-surf where you can read about their wide ranging water activities.

Anyway, they’re putting on a few Tandem and SUP classes whilst they’re in Sydney, at least some of which are in association with the Mighty Matt Grainger of the famous Manly Surf School. Their next event, I believe, is on the Valentines Day weekend. Check out the details here (and dig Aurelie’s great graphic design).