October 18th, 2008 by admin

Adam and I left Nanaimo and got to JR point in real good time.  Tide was on it’s way in so we stayed in the truck and examined the waves while we were waiting for Lanny, who camped over at Renfrew but woke up to a glassy lake so he was on his way to meet us.

We checked out JR camp which also looked decent and then LilChina which looked to be shaping up but was breaking to shallow.

Lanny arrived so we did a recon on the beaches again before deciding JR point would be our best bet.  The waves had definitely begun to tame down, but Adam and I got suited up anyway hoping for the best.  After about another hour of sitting in the truck (sweating with our suits on)  the waves progressively got worse and worse.  There would be 1 set of 1 or 2, 4′ waves every 15-20 minutes coming from the Northwest.  Anger.

Oh yeah, we did see a whale though, that was pretty cool.

October 18th, 2008 by admin

Al and I hiked our way down to Lil China.  Gorgeous day, ferocious waves.  Waves were coming in from the West, 12-13 ft and breaking in about 2.5-3ft of water.  Tide was about 3/4 in.  I’ve never felt more powerful waves in my life nor have I felt a rip with so much pull going straight out.  Waves were coming at us from every angle, it was pretty intense.  I’d line one up and right before I would catch it I’d get slammed by a wave that came out of nowhere from the opposite direction.  Not a great day for surfing, but as always a beauty day to be at the beach.

One of the only place on earth where the rain forest reaches the beach.