On the road again! And last sleep in a real bed for a while (again). Would rather be in my tent anyway than sleep in a dorm anyway.
We battled through the morning traffic (weird) to Trigg beach and check the Perth city beach strip. A few waves about but really quite crap, the legend is true! Beautiful day though and really appreciating the fact that we're not going to work on a day like this.
We ended up having a crappy surf in 2-3 foot closeouts with hundreds of our best mates at Trigg. pretty unsatisfying and ended with me being hit by some kook's surfboard as he tried to pull back on a wave I was already on. The wind took his board and cracked it right across the bone on my forearm. It really hurt but luckily no lasting damage although I needed help to get my wetsuit off.
Cruised into Freo and had the obligatory coffee on the cafe strip. Nice enough but really not much to it. Will be back later next week for a better look anyway.
Awesome to get out of town and be on the road to countryside surfspots. Very pretty drive down to Yallingup (at the northern end of the Margaret River wine region, as known as the south-west corner). We rolled up to find the campground right in front of the surf break AND the surf pumping at 4-5 foot and somehow offshore! We'd expected it to be onshore all day.
Rather than set up camp we got changed in the carpark, walked out over the reef and jumped in about 5pm. Yallingup is a couple of different breaks but we ended up surfing the lefthander winding off down the reef. Jack didn't have the greatest surf but I got a couple of belters and it was amazing with the sun going down, a bright pink sunset thanks to the bushfire smoke that was slowly drifting out to sea with the light offshore. Sorry no photo, I always seem to forget when there's good surf!
Surf: Trigg Beach, WA, 2-3 foot, 1.0hr (84.5 total); Yallingup, WA, 4-5 foot, 1.5hr (86.0 total)
