ron-t kayaking blog

18 October 2013 ............ The Swellies

There was just enough daylight with a big enough tidal range to get a short session on the Swellies wave.

This time I got there in good time, and only had to wait for about ten minutes before the wave started. It grew quite quickly, so I had about thirty or forty minutes of quite good surfing.

Like on a previous visit, I found the best way to get on to the wave was to head out high, and drop down on to the green portion river right.

I got several rides of a few minutes each, so it was worth the trip.

Sadly, I did suffer a loss - I was surfing the green portion river right, and I dropped off the back of the wave.

I picked up the second wave, and used that to surf back over to the river left side - I was just about there, and it reared up under me, and flipped me over. The second wave has a habit of doing this, just on the river left side,

A quick half roll and I was up again - but my trusty baseball cap had been washed off my head, and was floating away.

I paddled after it as it was slowly sinking, tried to grab it, but missed, and it disappeared down.

Then to add insult to injury, it started to rain - and I hate getting rain on my head.

My trusty baseball cap has been part of my outside life for many years now - it has been on loads of sea kayak trips, on thousands of cycle trips, and up hundreds of mountains.

So it is quite sad. RIP my trusty baseball cap.

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