Haai

There were some fun waves at Caves this morning. I dragged my mom with me to get some new footage. Things didn't work out so great as we were chased out of the water by another haai about 6 waves into my surf. The ocean was quite powerful. Spent like 15minutes at one stage trying to get out the back, haha.

I started putting all the video footage I have of everyone from 2008 together in one massive surf fliek. So funny going through the footage from when we were like 14. There's some classic funny clips of Duncan and JP from all our competition trips. Good old days.

Here are some photos I took today after the shark payed us a visit:

West Coast Boardriders Event 4

Competed in the last WCB event of this year this past weekend. The event took place at Big Bay. West Coast Boardriders events are great to compete in. They are really well organised and the overall vibe is always great. The waves for the fourth event were not too good, but everyone still ripped. The short, puchy waves at Big Bay forced everyone to take to the sky and the event kind of turned into a air show. People were just busting out everywhere and it was a really fun event to watch. I made it to the quarters, but then fell out as I didn't have a proper backup wave. Pretty bummed to get knocked out. I spent the rest of the day just free surfing which was pretty fun.

I didn't take any photos, but here are some of me that Claire Butler took at the event:

Here and there

Waves have been really scarce lately. There have been moments of brilliance at some spots, but good solid surf is really inconsistent. The South Easter has been pumping for weeks without end. We've found good waves here and there, in between all the wind and lack of real swell. Summer is near. Strand is as flat as a dam. All the sand is back and there are good banks everywhere. Caves has really turned on a few times in the past few weeks. Betties side also delivered some good waves last weekend for a few hours before the wind turned again.

Men in grey suits are also back in business in False Bay. There has been a shark sighting every day this week at Caves. So don't be stupid and surf if visibility is poor.

Oppie Weskus: Part 2

Yoyo's had fun waves everyday of our trip and we never even needed to go look for waves anywhere else. The swell was too small for Elands and the wind too strong for anywhere else. We had two or three sessions everyday and we were the only guys out there most of the time.

We went for a skate sesh in town. After finding and skating two smooth hills, we decided it was time to find something better. We found another good spot and started skating. Halfway down the hill, a cop pulled me over while Thinus and Coetzer darted to safety around the bend. "Goeie more officer". He tuned me that we were not allowed to skate in Lamberts Bay. "Ok dis reg. Ons sal iewers anders vind om te skate". He then replied by saying: "As ek julle vind, gaan ek julle voetter!" and drove down the street, stopped and wrote some poor guy a parking ticket. That was the end of our skate session. We headed back to camp for another surf and a braai.