First surf trip
Emma and I were lucky enough to try our hand at surfing the other weekend. We went down to North Devon with Vaughan and Shannon who have been riding the waves for a good five years now. That’s them below.
We drove down on the Friday and arranged for some lessons on the Sat. We stayed in a little campsite near Woolacombe. We had booked to stay in a couple of mini-caravan things called “Little Guys”. They’re mini trailers that are literally enough to sleep in and apparently 4ft wide. Not sure I’d be seen dead towing one but it was good fun staying in them. We couldn’t stop laughing when we saw them, I guess we’d kind of expected something err… bigger maybe? So after sampling the local fish and chip shop and making sure we hit happy hour at the campsite bar we were ready for a good sleep.
The next day it was up after an awful nights sleep, a quick trip to get some breakfast and then off to try our hand (balance?) at surfing. We’d booked lessons with Surf South-West down in Croyde. First was the basics, then more basics and finally a dip in the water. We all looked pretty stupid to be fair but at least we all had the same blue t-shirt on!
We both managed to catch a few waves and I even managed to stand up before shouting “wooo yeah” and promptly falling off. We were also both pretty sore by lunch, glad we booked the afternoon session too then! The afternoon session was pretty painful but still great fun. The best bit was just being in the water and getting more comfortable with the surf.
We both woke up on Sunday virtually unable to move. Everything hurt until the following Thursday. I had no idea it gave you such a thorough work out. I managed to spend some time on a board on the Sunday but it was pretty painful and I had kind of lost the will.
An absolutely superb weekend! A few pictures from Vaughan and the full set of mine here.
We’ll be back!
