I’m falling in love with autumn, because she always comes through. After some solid waves yesterday, it’s still pumping and this is just the start.
Nice to see the Bronte boys going mad and charging their local yesterday. The swell peaked mid morning at around the 8 foot mark, 2 jet-ski’s and a few paddlers shared a solidly, disjointed lineup which resembled a poor man’s Sunset Beach in Hawaii. All the boys got a couple but Luke Daniels was the man, with some nice power surfing and big hacks in the pocket.
I got a call from Mark Mathews after lunch that Kelly Slater was about to paddle out at Ours with Taj Burrow, so I jumped in car and scooted on down there as quick as I could to record the action. It was actually “Middles” which is the middle break of the 3 separate surf zones that make up The Cape Solander peninsular. Middles is a real bowl and a bit slower than the main break but still very thick and intense as all the slab reefs are in that area.
Kelly was his usual freakish self, grabbing all the biggest and best waves but it doesn’t matter who you are, The Cape will eventually sort you out. Slats took a couple of mean floggings, snapped a board and even got bowled over by a sneaky set walking back to jump off and then after picking himself up off the rocks, turned and took a bow to the applauding crowd. Classic! It is good to see that the eleven-time world champ is actually human as well.
I’m back over here again today and it’s a little smaller but clean as a whistle. We can’t complain. It’s autumn, it’s pumping and you have to love that!
Have a great weekend!
Billy
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