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.

September 20th, 2008 by admin

Steve, Bob, Adam and myself headed up to Ucluelet to camp for the night.  We got to bed pretty late no thanks to the relentless Wombat attacks.

Killer Wombat

Got at it bright and early because our campsite turned out to be a road, so we woke up to move our tents so a logger could get through.

Great day of surfing 4-5 footers in sets of 3-4 every couple of minutes.

Razor, Ali and Lanny met up with us for the second half and the waves maintained all day.

Very first time surfing on my brand new Al Merrick Designed Channel Islands 7′2, M-13.  I LOVE IT.
Caught the first wave I attempted and never looked back.  Thanks wifey