Victor's waves were consistently around the 2m mark with 14sec period.
Most of the coast was too big or too rough for me, and anyway, all we wanted was to surf Noosa.
We went there on Sunday and no surprise, the place was packed.
Little Cove and National park were perfect, just head high, and we didn't even bother checking out Tea Tree were all the best guys were for sure.
Once in the water, the first hour was getting frustrating. Perfect, beautiful waves and so many people around I couldn't even surf the smallest left overs..
Then magic happened.
After adjusting my position for 50 minutes, I got one, big, perfect wave. The other, because there were others on the same wave, on my inside, were caught in the white water in just few seconds. And the wave was all mine! Fast, high, but gentle, beautiful water, pushing me to the shore, and all the others paddling to give me way. And me? Well, I was working on it.
Go up the face, make a mix of cutback and re-entry, go down, turn up again, cut back a bit, step forward, step back, cut back..
..all the way from National Park to the inside of Little Cove!!
My legs hurt!
Joy is to say the least.
I managed to repeat it 3 other times, and surfed smaller ones inside Little Cove.
I didn’t surf much, overall, but I put together four of my longest and better surfed rides in one single day.
Pure Stoke.
Most of the coast was too big or too rough for me, and anyway, all we wanted was to surf Noosa.
We went there on Sunday and no surprise, the place was packed.
Little Cove and National park were perfect, just head high, and we didn't even bother checking out Tea Tree were all the best guys were for sure.
Once in the water, the first hour was getting frustrating. Perfect, beautiful waves and so many people around I couldn't even surf the smallest left overs..
Then magic happened.
After adjusting my position for 50 minutes, I got one, big, perfect wave. The other, because there were others on the same wave, on my inside, were caught in the white water in just few seconds. And the wave was all mine! Fast, high, but gentle, beautiful water, pushing me to the shore, and all the others paddling to give me way. And me? Well, I was working on it.
Go up the face, make a mix of cutback and re-entry, go down, turn up again, cut back a bit, step forward, step back, cut back..
..all the way from National Park to the inside of Little Cove!!
My legs hurt!
Joy is to say the least.
I managed to repeat it 3 other times, and surfed smaller ones inside Little Cove.
I didn’t surf much, overall, but I put together four of my longest and better surfed rides in one single day.
Pure Stoke.
I created this from the webcam. In the cirles the aproximate starting and arrving points of my rides |
Aproximate rides path with google map |
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Victor ha consegnato onde con constanza, sui due metri ogni 14 secondi. Per 4 giorni abbondanti.
Putroppo tra vento, lavoro, e impegni, ho potuto goderne solo Domenica. Ma cosi’ e’ la vita del vero surfista, quello con una vita da incastrare intorno alle sessioni, e con una marea di compromessi.
(Quelli che vivono serfando non sono veri surfisti! Loro vivono vite impossibili, fittizie, da film, come I miliardari delle riviste per esempio, con ville, piscine e gnocche ovunque.. ! Ma dove?)
Il mare era grosso e pericoloso. (Alcuni bagnanti sono affogati nel weekend). La maggior parte degli spot in zona erano oltre cio’ che considero divertente, fuori portata, ma noi in ogni caso volevamo solo Noosa e la sua perfezione. E cosi’ ci siamo andati, sapendo che la folla ci avrebbe messo a dura prova.
Il posto sembrava Rimini a Ferragosto, abbiamo lasciato la macchina in casino e siamo andati a piedi. Non abbiamo neanche controllato Tea Tree, che doveva essere enorme, e ci siamo fiondati immediatamente al National Park, dove onde giusto sotto i due metri rollavano in bellezza.
La prima ora ho sofferto, non riuscendo e prendere neanche gli scarti per via del traffico.
Poi la magia.
Dopo aver cambiato posizione per 50 minuti, la Mia onda e’ finalmente arrivata. Gli altri, ovviamente al mio interno, sono stati subito mangiati dalla schiuma, mentre io avevo strada libera. Una strada alta, rotonda, verde, perfetta, potente ma gentile, che mi spingeva senza indugi verso la spiaggia in lontananza, con tutti gli altri a togliersi di torno.
Ed io? Io lavoravo di gambe. Su contro la faccia, poi una sorta di miscuglio tra cutback e re-entry, giu, su ancora, passi in avanti, passi indietro, cut back, trim… senza pausa, per una delle onde piu’ lunghe mai fatte. Quaranta secondi circa. Avevo le gambe che chiedevano pieta’. Dal National Park a Little Cove solo andata. Mai successo prima.
Gioia e’ dire poco.
Poi, oltre ad altre, belle e divertenti onde minori, ho pure ripetuto per altre tre volte!
In generale non ho serfato tanto, ma erano le onde migliori che abbia mai preso ed eseguito allo stesso tempo. Fantastico.
Le sogno ancora e non le dimentichero’ facilmente.
Ho messo insieme questa immagine dalle inquadrature dela webcam. Nel circoletto aprossimata l'inizio e la fine delle mie cavalcate |
Stessa aprossimazione con google map |