Surfs up dude

After many deliberations and ponderings of Kayak's or surfboards and what/when/who will use them, we decided to go for a surfboard!!! Having done some research on it (no surprise there hey!) I knew the kind of board we wanted and there is a good board shop in Scabbers, so we went in there and the guy recommended one of the few we were looking at. And it passed the primary requirement, having some yellow on it somewhere, obviously.

My wife, the surf chick!

So board and wax in hand we stomped down to the beach and proceeded to wax it up ready for our first attempt, then realised actually waxing it up ON the beach in a 15-20kt wind wasn't the best idea. So got that sorted and we were off into the huge 2ft surf, and by that I mean real 2ft not "surf" 2 ft which actually works out to be somewhere from 6-8ft waves. Especially in Perth as they SMASH you into the sand if you're not paying attention. "Been there done that" on the boogie boards several times!

We took turns having a go which was interesting as there was a big rip on top of the wind so ended up about a km down the beach in a few minutes. But had lots of fun although we never quite got standing.

So, fast forward to last weekend and we got down there again on saturday morning and figured out what we needed to do and BOTH got standing, Yeah!! Still small waves and whitewash, but still Standing.

So onwards and upwards hopefully and have a plan to be in the water at least once a week, as the nights are getting darker it's going to be tough to get down to the beach after work, but we'll see.