Best Laid Plans

It's been a while, do I still have any readers? I'll start off by stating the obvious, how rubbish has the weather been? After our freaky warm and sunny March I think every day in April it's rained and May so far hasn't been much better, ironically this wet weather coincided with councils announcing hosepipe bans due to drought.... yeah yeah yeah one month of rain doesn't make up for 18 months of relative dry.... bla bla bla we've heard it all before, but 'Mister Council Water Man' WAKE UP! Nobody is hosing the lawns, they are frigging soaking wet! This shite weather has even lead me to checking the extremely unpredictable longer term reports, Apparently we will have a warmer and dryer June, July and August, I bloody hope so, especially as my usual French trip is now looking very unlikely this year.... I know.... I don't really want to talk about it...

So what have I been doing since my last Blog, well I haven't been surfing, my last surf was on the 27th of March in Woolacombe with Spencer I've written about it below, but other than that I have been working, starting a new business and being ill with sickness, cough and cold, my fitness is now the worst it has been in years and I am becoming desperate for a surf.

The chance of me making my 100 surfs before my usual French trip (which probably isn't happening) is not looking good but I need to try.
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The 2 weeks from the 17th March to 31st March had a lovely constant flow of great waves and great weather in the west, I was desperate to go west, every day I would tease myself by looking at the web cams and watching lovely unridden waves go by, then there looked to be a chance to get some waves at K but I got sick and missed the best of them.... So I had to go west.

49/84 Sat night 24th March
I had a lovely and surprisingly good evening session at K, I bumped into Spencer out back and we felt pretty stoked to be in warm mellow glassy 2ft waves with a wicked sunset.

I felt really excited about the morning session, with a building swell and sunny calm conditions things were looking perfect.

50/85 Sun night 25th March
I was sick in the night and couldn't get up for the morning session, so gutted as I heard it was a good one... I made it out for a late evening session but the swell had gone and I was pretty gutted.

51/86 Tue first 27th March
I was now so desperate to get some quality waves everyone seemed to be getting good waves except me, The conditions looked perfect for the west country, I thought I had to go no matter what! I put the text out and Spencer replied, I found a friend woho!

We decided on Woolacombe during the trip journey, I always seem to end up there, it has its advantages with  the ability to park along the sea front and chill out on the grass in-between sessions, not as crowded as Croyde and quick to get too.

As I pulled up the sun was glissening off 3ft perfect looking waves it looked fantastic. It was about now I received a text from Dan Magee letting me know he had just coughed up blood! It did put a bit of a downer on things, I text him back with sympathy and didn't let him know where I was!

First session started in the middle of the bay and I got out at Combes! over 3 hours and was I was ready to go home but we battled on!

52/87 Tue second 27th March
Second session at least another couple of hours extremely knacked and pretty chuffed. Sunny days will hopefully be back again soon!

Wooly

Spencer

Bonzer