GowerCharger wrote:On a big messy day if you just pile straight in and start paddling towards the horizon youll get slaughtered,
Yeah, see, thats where the plan went wrong

Ive only ever surfed there one weekend and it was BIG. Clean out back, but miles of white water to get through first. And having absolutely no local knowledge it was a case of pile in and paddle!

So, yes, slaughtered is about right!

But Im the first to admit that ignorance was a big part of it!
