Something For The Ladies ;D

Back in the Swellie's again today with the intention of practicing some moving water skills & boy does it move.

I've also added lots of action shots of yours truly for all my lady admirers, (I Wish! LOL).

Setting off from Port Daniel again Except this time I hitting the water at Low Water Liverpool so I'll be paddling the flood with the flow going East this time.

I am kinda wondering how I'm gonna get under the bridge with the flow & 25mph winds against me?

Wasn't too bad, a bit of shore hugging & a few hard strokes & I was through. You can see in this image just how fast the flow is & I'm hitting it at peak flow too.
What surprised me a little was the eddy currents, some of them literally spin in circles & are tricky to paddle through.

Gonna come back to this spot later, let it build up a bit first. Another surprising thing is how quickly the waves change. There was three distinct rapids in this area when I returned, the strongest on the left, then the middle & the weakest on the right.
Within minutes the one on the right had died away leaving the middle strongest before all the waves died down.
this seems a feature of the swellie's, grab the moment when you can & then move onto the next spot.

 Heres a few action shots, like I said, something for the ladies (LOL).

Breaking In...

Inside Turn

A fab few hours on the water & a great playground :)

Me, Myself & The Ebb Tide...

Back to paddling by myself today & with a huge tide I decided to head for the swellies at peak flow which is around 8 knots on the ebb.

Here you can see the blue & white boat facing into the ebbing tide & the white boat facing into the back eddy.

 It's looking like being a nice paddle.

I play in the flow under the bridges for a bit, practicing breaking in & out, spins & ferry gliding.

 The fisherman seem quite interested as I mess around in the current.

The tides really staring to shift as I pass the Cardinal marker.

Surfing...

I'd put a little video together but at 50 mega bytes it would take about 9 hours to upload on my dongle so I snatched a few stills instead.

More Surfing...

Trying to get on another ride as the waves die down....

Not huge waves which was surprising given the size of the tide & hitting it at peak flow. I suspect I need to arrive earlier when the waters deeper, will have to find out :)

Hmmm, where to next?

The Swellies...

Had a fantastic day today with Jen's & Morton from Greenland. Both Jen's & Morton are 4 star sea leaders which could prove useful (LOL). We were gonna paddle out of Trearddur Bay to Borthwen but soon changed our minds as we pulled up at Trearddur Bay, It was blowing a gale!

Plan B was the Swellies & it would be running at 100% at 12:30 with a decent sized tide the day before the New Moon.

Bumped into Barry Shaw again at our launch spot as he was preparing to show some newbies to Sea Kayaking the ropes.

Jen's looking at the flow ready for some breaking in.

We played for some time breaking in & out, ferry gliding & generally pissing about:)

Time to move on & look for some rougher water.

Not quite enough here.

looking better.

Breaking Out.

Having fun, not sure if we were practicing skills or behaving like children? I particularly loved surfing these waves, scared the shit out of me at first but I soon felt my groove & couldn't get enough.

Lunch on the Island in the Swellies, hope the jammy git's that live here don't mind. was rather impressed watching the ebbing tide shoot past creating a rather large & obvious back eddy.

A short vid of Jen's & Morton Playing & demonstration some impressive Greenland Rolls.