Kiteventure

 Full adventure with a trip across point danger - which was pretty dangerous with the water just covering the reef and some nasty rocks poking out.  Once on the other side - mayhem.  Big big waves, I managed to catch one in which was fun - but very difficult to get back out.  Hit a reef with my fin, surfers everywhere, swimmers everywhere, and big surf ready to clean you up.  And cross chop - you'd get on a wave and crap would be coming at you from every direction.  I got it somewhat under control and beckoned to James not to go in any further.  Poor Stu didn't get the message and got pushed in to shore - having to walk back along the beach.  We'd eventually planned to get down to Bells but after this little adventure that was definitely not on - way too big.  Got back across to cozy corner and breathed a sigh of relief to get back to normal swell and repeatable waves.

 What a relief to hit the beach in a solid 20 knots.  No debate about kite size, nice waves rolling through so we all got out and had a lot of fun.  Bit of a weird break - it didn't really seem to be breaking anywhere consistently, just waves breaking all over the shop.  The best break seemed to be quite close to shore, so I ended up hanging around there quite a bit.

A great south easterly forecast had us all very excited.  Big plans were made - including a bremlea to point impossible session, then a round trip to Point Lonsdale.  Of course, the wind had other ideas. I shared the trip down with James and Pete, Tarren and Stu joined forces, Adam bought the camper, Anthony and Dobbo arrived solo.  Wind seemed strong at Bremlea, but on hitting the beach it was more like 15 to 16 knots.  Quite a struggle most of the time just holding a line - the big surf was moving a lot of water on shore so it was constantly pushing you off.  We had about 15 mins of decent wind, the rest was just hard work.  Eventually we abandoned and went for brunch in Torquay to setup for the day.  Poor dobbo had to bail early for family stuff so a tiny bit of Bremlea was all he got to see.

 Was the first to the beach, it looked pretty decent but thought I'd enjoy a big air session.  And big air it was, oscillated from 25 to 35 knots, got airborne quite a bit and enjoyed the break further out with the long never ending wave.  Was joined near the end by Rich, Job, Luca and Mike also eventually got out.  Glorious spot, glorious.

 James and I arrived at the beach to see Stu having a ball in the small swell off Hampton.  We hurried out, joined by Ant and proceeded to hit the big rollers.  Heaps of fun - discovered a nice little wave in the more northerly groyne and tore it up.

 Stu and I headed down to flinders with a big wind forecast and just enough swell. Arriving we could see already that we were in for a treat, great wind and waves were clearly breaking out on the point. Out there it was great, tide was way in, most rocks underwater and some amazing rides.

 Got out after work with Stu and another dude from Beaumaris.  Wind was not gusty but kinda variable.  Got some good air and got asked for tips afterwards from a beginner.  There was a weird pipe washed up on the beach, goodness knows from where.