GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

Here it is...the months we've all dreaded. Looks like our flatspell is over with a weak SW flow developing for the next few days or so. Even though the forecasted SW winds are not to exceed 30kts....there is still SOMETHING to stand up on. So yea, I'm taking an early lunch, running home, packing my gear up (including the water housing), and heading back to work with high hopes of a dusk session worthy of at least waist high water shots. Someone has to do it right? You can't really complain about windswell during the summer....but you can go out and destroy mini-peelers!!! My quiver is without my 5'6x20 5/8 fish(turned so hard I busted a fin bite out) so the old 6'0 Webber Taj T-Lite will have to do the job. Getting my gutless summer mush board back on Wed. XB has hooked up yet another FLAWLESS ding repair job. I heard they might be doing SUP tours around local estuaries and rivers (away from surf populated beaches)...anything to beat the flatspell and the heat...right? Oh, the summer crowd waist high windswell will bring....will there be 1 guy out, 5 guys, or 35 guys? This should be interesting.

ATTN: 8 foot baby Great White just got picked up by a dragger no more than 2 miles off the coast of Rhode Island. There's this certain spot....near this certain break where they have been consistently pulling baby greats out of the water for 3-4 years now....less that 1 mile crows eye from spots I surf.... What is this Africa? What's next?....Tiger sharks? Peace. Live to Ride. JB

Make Something From Nothing

       It's not quite summer yet. It's not quite flat yet. It's not quite tourist season yet. It's not that crowded YET. The coming weeks are truly the calm before the storm of tourist season. Shortly our early morning dawn patrol drives will be swarmed by shoobs from the greatest reaches of our globe. Our 1 hour 15 minute commute to Cape Cod surf will soon turn into 3-10 mile back ups that will put even the MOST core surfers ' patience to the test. If the traffic isn't enough NOW is the time of year we have to pay $15 to park at VARIOUS locations around the area. Of course (if you know the right people) there are many ways around closed lots and beach parking fees. Get creative....go meet some locals....get to know the right people. It's the only way you will survive another summer in New England. Nova Scotia is looking very temping right now with the brunt of this past S/SW wind field driving surf far into the northern reaches. Not too many crowds up that way. Stay warm, keep the sun block on, don't drink too much in the sun, and try to keep your composure no matter how hectic these summer crowds are about to get!! We'll see if they're still around come November. Peace. JB.

Loads of thanks to Joey Jones for shooting photos.
More to come.
Can you say Cannon with water housing?
Hope for surf! G'day