G’damn it was large last Sunday. Groins was a mess of current. Only a few guys out at the Cove. There were waves, but board breakers for sure. Paddling out was tricky. There was so much backwash-suck that the inside white water was double O at times. Patience and timing was key.
All images courtesy of kikopkau.com – More Westport – 03.28.10 photos here.
Maybe a half hour out, after catching just one wave i was paddling back out to the “line-up.” Got under one wave, came up and started scratching to get out for the next bomb that was coming. I had a feeling i wasn’t gonna make it. I was significantly farther out in the line-up than usual and this wave was walling up a good 20 feet out from me. Then it broke. Huge. I started swimming for the bottom at the last possible second(i know). I felt my board get caught by the wave breaking above me, leg pull, leash stretch, then POP. I surfaced, was allowed to breath, and saw my board bobbing inside of me. Crap.
I had a swim waiting. Lot of current, water moving everywhere. This was gonna be interesting. After every few strokes or so, i’d look back to see what was coming. A few of the waves that i got dealt required some searching for the bottom. They sounded like a freight train rolling over head. Amazingly loud under water.
Re-leashed, breathed, and got back to it.
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just stopped in and checked out these cove pics again,,,,,HEAVY.
never surfed the cove that big…that last pic with the bottom turn goin’ right….heavy indeed.
me either. it was barreling way out past that tower, mushing out, reforming and barreling again.
great pics.. looks like a burly day.
the dude in the second to left picture looks like such a
goob, not to mention that dudes the biggest prick at westport next
to pepsi’s fat ass. hope that meth head drowns or becomes a
statistic as the only shark attack victim in washington since
89.
Yeah. I just steer clear of that dude. Pretty much surfs circles around most peeps.
He’s ok