Winter Begins...

After being back in Australia for a week and a half we have only had decent wind twice. A bit different from Maui where it is windy pretty much every day! It has been pretty weird weather with nearly all of last week being an easterly wind pattern. This is usually what we get in summer so it was definitely strange this time of year.
Thankfully it makes for some excellent surf along the Mornington Peninsula where north easterlys blow offshore. Last Friday was light offshore, 4-5ft barrelling at Gunnamatta. Pretty damn good!



Anyway with these easterly patterns Sandy Point has worked twice since I've been back. I wasn't really expecting any port tack sailing for a few months so I was pretty stoked to get to sail in some waves the right way around. The first time was a total mission after driving halfway before realising James had forgot his wetsuit, fins, mast extensions and footstraps! We turned around and drove back to his house and then hit the road again... Luckily we were rewarded with a fun session in 20 knots cross off and head high waves.



On Sunday we had a strong south easterly forecast. I was keen to check out Woolamai on Phillip Island to score some bigger and much more powerful waves than Sandy Point but in the morning it just didn't look there was any wind down there.... So off to Sandy Point again. When we first got there it was cross shore and really mushy. The waves were shapeless just forming random peaks all down the beach. Initially it was pretty frustrating before it swung a bit more offshore later in the afternoon, cleaning up the building swell. The sun even came out for a while which was nice!



Now the forecast looks totally hopeless for any kind of in water activities with light onshore conditions and small swell for the next week... Fingers crossed
something materialises soon!