December 24th, 2009 by admin

After some how surviving the night with 15 pounds of Christmas Dinner turkey in my belly, Steve and I left Nanaimo around 8:00 heading South towards Lil China.

We got to our destination and were greeted by the parking attendant who told us it was pretty flat down on the beach.  We got a little nervous because up until that point we still hadn’t seen a single person in the water.  It had been a long time since either of us had been in the water so we didn’t even take the recon mission to see if there were wave we just geared up and began our hike.  There were a noticeable amount of big trees that had fallen since my last visit there must have been some pretty big wind storms  in the area already this year.

We were pleasantly surprised by the sound of nice sized waves crashing as we approached the beach.  We turned the last corner and within seconds saw some pretty descent waves coming in.  They weren’t quite 13 feet as the forecast projected but the only thing that really matters is that they were rideable!

We went in just before Rock Piles and stayed there for the majority of the day.  The day was absolutely perfect.  It was around plus 8 or 9, the sky was blue and the sun beat down on us the entire day allowing us to go hoodless near the end of December.  There wasn’t one other surfer out there the entire day.  Our spectators consisted of a couple of eagles who stared at us from the top of a tree right off the point and a few different families of seals who got a little to close for Steve’s comfort at one time as he had to shout at it to get out of the way as he was riding out a wave.