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07 October 2014 ............ The Swellies
Big tidal ranges this time around, so I tried out the Swellies to see how it would go.
It didn`t - it was just about useless.
I think it must have been the effect of the large low pressure that has turned the late summer into winter - the water levels were all wrong for what they should have been.
The wave was slow to start, and even early on it was clear that it was being strongly influenced by large turbulances that must have come right through the Menai Straits and into the Swellies.
There was a large area of white water and waves between the wave and the Cardinal Marker, where usually there is an area of whirlpools that flow past the edge of the wave.
On this occasion this white water was flowing further into the wave, and forming a large shoulder on the wave.
The green wave was very intermittent, sometimes it was there, sometimes it wasn`t.
The wave train below the wave was quite viscious - every now and then the waves would explode upwards.
There were huge boils through it, and when a wave met a boil, the wave would rear up, fold over, and dump - just like dumping surf on a beach.
I got pushed over and had to roll up again three times.
I got very little surfing, and eventually I gave up, and went over to the Anglesey side to see if there was anything playable over there - there wasn`t, and there was practically no water flowing through between the islands. So I don`t know what was going on there either
So it was all a bit of a wasted evening, but there was a somewhat watery but nice enough sunset.
Maybe later in the week the weather will die down a bit, the big tidal ranges last until Saturday, but by then darkness will be a problem.
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