Hello Friends,
Here’s the final installment for today… After getting out of the water, we headed to the Marlin for a pub lunch and a fortifying libation. I wrote my midday update and then we decided to have a poke around south of Ulladulla.
First stop was Dolphin Point. It was a brief visit because a) it was totally blown out from the SE wind, and b) the swell was big and horrid looking. Inspired we continued south to a secret spot known only to a select few.
There we found that, unlike Dolphin Point, it was not big. Worse, it was clearly the wrong swell direction. Appropriately enough, we had a long discussion about secret spots. Views were exchanged as we walked through a particularly lovely bit of NSW coastal forest. While no resolution was arrived at, we did see a couple very fine stretches of empty beach. I grabbed a picture of what looked like it might possibly be a surfable wave. I include it below for your contemplation.
Those more familiar with the vagaries of this coast may wonder at our next move; we decided to take a look at Bawley point and thereabouts for the simple reason that neither of us have surfed there yet.
It’s a most attractive stretch of coast, but neither the point nor such adjacent surf guide fodder as No Toes and Guillotines was offering an attractive prospect. We plugged another CD into the deck and made our way back to Ulladulla.
It was getting late but hoping for perhaps one more quick session, we revisted the scene of our earlier triumphs. The post school folks were on it and as nearly as we could tell, they were mostly near- or even actual – pros.. So discretion being the better part of valour and all that, I decided instead to take a few snaps
as the boys took apart a juicy left (see pics below).
And now, I’m almost done with the day’s writing… a steak dinner at the bowlo and a house red have been most advantageous to my endeavours.
Who knows what tomorrow may bring (we are hopeful because the swell seems to be kicking along at much the same intensity of earlier today). I will try to bring you news of these doings in the fond hope
