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Postby Laguna » Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:29 pm

My favourite local spot when its good. Just wondering, anyone surfed there low to mid tide? I went the other day at mid tide when it was 4-5ft messy and paddling was so hard.lol. Just wasnt getting anywhere, please tell me other people have found it hard when the tides out and its messy.

When its 4ft+ messy I dont think you can do much
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Postby sinistapenguin » Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:55 pm

Above 4 ft 'Gennith becomes the worst fleshin paddle in the world.

Plus when the banks are wrong you get the lovely brown foam!!
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Postby drowningbitbybit » Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:59 pm

ha ha ha Llangennith ha ha twitch ha ha ha ha maniacal cackle ha ha ha gibber ha ha break down in tears weeping, sniff...

Memories of paddling out at Llan still make me go all funny :shock: :roll:


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Postby sinistapenguin » Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:03 pm

Memories of 2 weeks of gastric infection after a session at Gennith still make my stomach churn!! :shock:
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Postby Laguna » Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:37 pm

when its messy and above 4ft its almost impossible to paddle out
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Postby sinistapenguin » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:09 pm

I once saw it breaking at about 8-10 and really clean, but the paddle must have been about 1/4 mile through lines and lines of whitewater.

We got back into the van and headed round to Horton where we had a killer session!
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Postby drowningbitbybit » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:28 pm

sinistapenguin wrote:I once saw it breaking at about 8-10 and really clean, but the paddle must have been about 1/4 mile through lines and lines of whitewater.


I saw it like that one very early morning, managed the paddle out (found a lovely rip) and then those 8-10ft waves landed on my head and held me down for what felt like a week :shock:

One more attempt (thanks Mr Rip), caught a wave, slid the tail out (whoops, possibly shouldnt have been out on the fish), got pummelled again, gave up and went and sat in the sun 8)

Not my proudest surfing moment.... :wink:
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Postby drowningbitbybit » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:34 pm

Actually, while we're on the subject...

Maybe there is one useful thing I can contribute to the Llangennith conversation... :oops:

Straight in front of the car parks/camp site is about the worst place to try and paddle out. If you walk a very very long way ... er... south... towards the end of the bay, then the headland offers some protection and also some rips pull from the centre of the bay and can whip you out back in no time at all :D

not sure which is harder though - the paddle out, or the long walk :roll: :wink:
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Postby sinistapenguin » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:40 pm

As an alternative to the long walk (although still not great) - you can head to Rhossilli head and walk down to the beach from the clifftop carpark.

never tried it, but I've seen plenty of people do it.
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