24th August
Surf 35
A bit of an anticlimax 3ft of shifty unpredictable waves, clean but disorganised and unsatisfactory. The last few years my last couple of surfs of the trip have been classics but this was definitely not classic and probably below average for the trip. Andy and I bumped into Dan on the way out and I think his surf was equally as disappointing.
The rest if the day was spent surfing with the kids and chilling at the pool also de-camping.
25th August
I got up early and went up north to meet Dan we sat on the sand and chatted wile watching super clean 1/2ft waves but the tide was a bit low and the will to surf was lacking. Driving away I though VVF would be showing a lovely wave but I had ran out of steam and with 12 hours of driving ahead of me the surf would have had to be pretty special to bother.
The drive home was smooth and easy, the kids and even Char were no trouble and we took Dan's advice and got a cabin on the ferry which was the best £25 I have ever spent!
The welcome home was cold and fresh, I had some bloke shouting abuse at me from his car as I had to manoeuvre some tricky reversing with the caravan as a lorry was threatening to take me out along a narrow bridge. The angry bloke had to wait nearly 2 minutes and seemed quite upset about it, maybe he had something against caravans?
So good to be home? Not really, reality (home) is cold, wet and flat, although there looks to be some swell potential on the horizon an east swell about 1/2ft is hitting today 1st September, which I may have to check out later and there is a quality bit of ground swell hitting the west at the weekend.
So 35 surfs in a total of 37 days although 4 of those days I was travelling! So that is more than 1 surf a day for the days I was near the sea. We had some absolute classics and lots of general good quality sessions and even the sloppy, smaller and not so perfect days still gave me a lot of fun. The kids had the best holiday ever and even Char who is now very heavily pregnant thought it was fantastic, and considering she couldn't run, drink coffee, drink wine and had to watch her diet as she was borderline gestational diabetic it is quite impressive she had any fun at all! We are now talking about going back at Easter but that depends on money and right now we are feeling very skint!
I am going to continue writing about my surfs and tracking how many I am having. So my next surf will be number 36 and I will zero again when I go back to France next summer. It will be interesting to see how many surfs I have and how they rate.
So what is it 45 weeks until France? Unless I go at Easter!
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