What a difference 24 hours makes, 08Apr12

Trip report by Turtleboy

Whalerider, with his new 4.3 metre Prowler, and I launched from MG at around 630am. It was a beautiful morning and an easy launch through a small swell before rigging up and heading north. I had already radioed IMAX who was out around the tip of the national park and BigKev who was up past Little Halls Reef. I believe that Corie was also out but not sure of his location.

We decided to head north, based upon the intel from the previous day, and we made it in record time to Little Halls Reef aided by an increasingly strong south, south easterly wind. Whalerider was checking our progress on his new gps and confirmed that we were traveling at an average of 7 kph with little effort. That's the good news !

Whilst we stopped to speak to a few surfers and a lone fisherman on a jet ski, there was little other activity. No birds nor bust ups. So after trolling around LHR for 45 minutes, with increasing winds and bad weather out to sea, we decided to head home which took a lot longer than the drift out.

Bashing into a nasty little chop we made it back in about an hour. I saw one small bust up but was unable to get a cast away due to the distance and the breeze right on the bow of the kayak. Meanwhile BigKev had skirted back down the shoreline and across the river mouth. We all arrived back at MG at about the same time. After a successful beach landing we compared notes and agreed it was a challenging work out despite the lack of fish on board.

Corie, who I think had landed and packed up earlier, and Grant had a quick body surf whilst I provided details of our club to 2 new potential members, and of course had a quick chat to the surf club members in the west beach tower, on what we know as middle groyne.

Turtleboy