According to the calendar winter is over and it is now spring. Unfortunately someone forgot to tell the weather.
This was probably the worst winter for surf that I can remember in my 14 odd years here.
There was not a single bank at
BP all winter. The reef was always a three section left in winter but it hasn't broken on the second shallow take off all year (and hasn't worked for the last four or five). Juniors is never good in winter but we usually get a decent rip bank off the southern rocks. It has threatened to appear a few times but never done it.
The
BP Groyne has been surfed a bit but the bank and rip just aren't there. The sand isn't getting washed out and the weed is getting washed in.
Fraggles broke about three times early and only once was more than a novelty.
The Bay was a little more consistent but not all time. The Wall broke a few times but you wouldn't have surfed it is there was any other choice.
The Surf Club had a few banks for a few days between swells. The Clam failed to really get one of the good winter banks and was mostly a close out. On the days it did work it was packed.
Bright sides were the opening of the path to the Bay and the start of construction on the
BP look out but
that's about it.
Fingers crossed for spring.
