Tease me, tease me, tease me

till I lose control....

I now realise what that tune by 'chaka demus & pliers' (or perhaps he was christened 'SHAKA demus') was all about.

It's about long, dreary summer flat spells with the occasional promise of swell that never quite materialises.

I'm getting so sick of looking at forecast maps, I almost can't be bothered but like a drug, I can't resist having a quick peak every morning around 6.30am - just in case.

Imagine missing out after weeks of watching and waiting...it doesn't bear thinking about.

Just about rideable on a SUP or longboard today:


Lovely day out there today and warm for a change but still only a foot and clean with a slightly better underlying wave period.

I'm off to Asturias on Thursday morning for 8 days and was hoping to get some decent surf time in before I attempt to take on the mighty 'Rodilles' rivermouth but it doesn't look like it will happen.

Apparently the locals are pretty full on there and you only get one chance to prove yourself if it's firing, so I'd better not slip up! ;)

The tube ride there is rated better than Mundaka whatever that means?! Hollower I guess, and it's ranked as the 2nd best left in Spain so it's bound to be flat!

I'm taking my camera and video so will try and do the place justice.

The surf forecast for Spain does actually look favourable though and I might just get my little boy on a board if the seas warm enough.

Now if that volcanic ash cloud would just feck off...

Huey lives

Swell: 1.1m
Wave Period: 7 seconds
Winds: light SE winds
Tides: 9.4m, HT @ 6.14am

Huey's been away on holiday for what seems like an eternity but is probably only 2 weeks in reality but we've finally got a hint of freshly ground swell today.

Well, more than a hint - there were 3 lads in riding it at 6am this morning but the tide was high and I didn't see enough being ridden to inspire me. The wave period wasn't great either but is improving.

Today's pic courtesy of porthcawl surf


Now the tide's dropped back it's looking much more promising and there are well defined lines.

The surf is only 2ft but it's clean and rideable and there's more on the way for next week :)

Everyone loves a fat Hawaiian

But a fat Hawaiian on a SUP

WITH A DOG?!

Well... that takes it to a whole new level in my book!

I can almost taste the delicious sugar cane and yam...and it's left me salivating for more.

Enjoy the pics and feel free to leave some comments as all I seem to get are weird comments from Japanese people currently but at least I know they're enjoying themselves?!






"I told you to wag your tail to the left bradha!"


"What sup?"

Small clean lines...

I've been determined to go for a pre-breakfast run for the last few days now but as luck would have it, I chose today when it was pissing down with rain!

Blue skies would have been so much nicer but at leas it was quiet and the dog poo had been washed away :)

Jnr was up at 5.30am anyway though so I figured it was my fate.

I ended up having a nice run down to and along Rest Bay to Pink Bay and back up through the fields past the golf course to home - around 3 miles through soft sand and up a few inclines and rocks to make it interesting.

It's nice to run over the reefs at low tide too and see where all the nooks and crannies are. You can see from the contours why certain sections hold up whilst others turn into unmakeable heaving barrels, unloading onto dry slabs.

Took me about 40 mins anyway and my legs are feeling a little heavier for it.

There were even some clean lines rolling through and I hesitated at one point and considered bolting home to grab a board...

If I'd had a longboard I probably would have gone in for a dip. No wind and clean 1 footers peeling along the shore.

The underlying period is okay currently - around 12.5 seconds. Now all we need is some proper ground swell. It's like having ice cream without the ice-magic...

Out west they've had a few small but clean days but we've been locked into a wave drought here in South Wales.

Fresh West yesterday:


The future isn't bright currently. There are a few weak lows down in Biscay which may send a few small pulses our way and a low pushes down from the north next Wednesday which might give us some respite.

In the meantime I'm trying to get fitter and get my pop up, back to where it used to be!

Northern Spain beckons....