Had a pretty good time :)
Went down on Thursday night and stopped over the usual truck stop for the night. We met up with our buddy Craig at 08:00 on Friday morning at the services - superb timing - so had a quick squirt and a bevvy and headed down to the beach.
Weather was pretty bad - almost constant rain and a chilly wind (I had a bit of the "chilli wind" on Saturday night much to the annoyance of Nic!). On the up side, we were greeted with some pretty sizeable waves. Croyde was real messy and breaking right on the beach - so we headed round to Puts. As always Puts treated us well :) I got me gun out (still need more practice on this puppy - but getting there) and we all knobbed about in the shallows - it was too boisterous to get out.
Having spent a fair time in the sea, fully gimped up (it was fooking freezing!), we headed back to the camp site. The field we were in was like a bog - well not like a bog - it was a bog! We moved to a drier patch the next day.
Friday night was fun and the first plans for our surf film were put into place. Obviously I can't go into massive detail just yet, but rest assured it will be special.
Saturday proved to be a bad day for me. Craig had broke his gun out and was having a good'un. Nic was popping out some good moves as well. Me - it looked like I'd never done it before :( I got major slammed, twice, trying to get out back so after a short session I headed to van for a cuppa with Craig in tow. Nic stayed out and was loving it. After moving to a drier spot on the camp site, night rolled in and we settled down for another night of rummy, biscuits and booze.
Croyde and Puts were both pretty weak on Sunday morning, so we headed to back towards Saunton. I'm so pleased we did. the conditions were sweeeet! Smaller, but real clean and a great period :) We suited and booted real quick (for a change!) and took the long walk to the sea (tide was out). A perfect longboard day today - so having spent a couple of minutes with Nic making sure she was applying the previous nights techniques that we had all discussed, I headed out back and rocked it up :) I managed to get some real clean waves and a bitta stylee with a few hang fives. Nic & Craig were both having a great session as well.
Sunday made the weekend for me :)
It was good to have Craig along for a change - our first official outing together. He just needs to convince his Mrs to don a suit and gimp mask, then we're laughing!
Roll on the next one...
