The epic surf never really materialised, the first few days were onshore and blown out 2-3ft but the wind eased and the sun made an appearance mid week.
Nevertheless we had a fun trip and visited Lands End, Porthcurno, Gwithian, Hayle, Newquay Aquarium, Perran Sands and a few other places in between and the tent remained upright! I can definitely recommend the Gwithian Farm campsite too - cracking spot, excellent facilities and nice people running the place and the 'Sunset Surf Cafe' serves up some amazing food at the back of the beach.
I took the single fin with me which I'd not surfed for about a year which wasn't ideal in 3-4ft wedgey Penhale with lots of close outs! but rode a few.
The waves didn't really give me an opportunity to find my rhythm and were generally steep drops followed by a bottom turn/top turn and close-out section. I paddled in feeling very sorry for myself especially as there were groms out there ripping it up! lol
The following day I got up 'earlyish' and hit Gwithian where we were camping and after a few aborted rock scrambles, I found the 'proper' steps down to the beach and had some fun 2-3ft clean beach break. It took me a while to get into my stride but eventually began to master the board again and threw in a few floaters and cutbacks.
The following day we hit the beach once more on our way home and it was howling NE and 3ft but I was on dad patrol hurling rocks into rock pools and anyone walking by so gave it a miss.
We also bought Fin his first wetty - 'trainee lifeguard', well his second actually but the baby one doesn't really count. He found the seas off Cornwall a bit chilly in howling NW winds but seemed to enjoy walking dad's board on the sand and covering the melting wax with sand....
Not much surf to report, back home but we're due a small hit tonight and tomorrow and onshore winds so might take a dip anyway.
Surf club meeting is on tonight - 7.30pm @ Salthouse Bar and as part of International Surfing Day on 20 June, we're planning a cool family surfing day at Rest Bay on 18 June with some crazy surfing contests in the pipeline( tandem, fancy dress, swell boards are all in the mix currently), BBQ, some expression sessions from the local rippers and free surfing lessons.
There's a party in the evening with bands and a charity surf auction for the local Logan Padden Foundation so check out our WCSC Facebook page for more details on that.
See some of you later for a pint!
Gull
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