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Not too surprisingly the bay could handle the south wind pretty well. It was a light offshore breeze here that kept the ocean surface smooth. The mussel reef was choppy but the whole bay was pure silk. And the northerly direction of the swell did something special to the shallows in the bay. When a set arrived, the waves started to break deep in the bay and created a nice right and a left, that ran forever. The bigger ones made it from far outside, past the little jetty until they ended in front of the West Wind Café. The longest rides must have lasted a good 200 meters. Sure, it was not Skeleton Bay or Mundaka, but definitely one of the longer waves of the North Sea. The waves didnīt have a lot of power, but the bigger ones had head high faces.
There were just a few surfers and one lonely light wind windsurfer at the outer break. The inside was used as class room for the West Wind surf school. They obviously didnīt have the lineup rules lesson yet, but obviously had a lot of fun.
I couldnīt resist, cancelled my breakfast and grabbed my longboard. The long paddle out to the outer break was done dry hair. Once out I soon caught one and rode it all the way to the jetty. That was fun, but I needed to refuel so just walked back to the van and finally had breakfast.
Afterwards I had a look at the North Shore. Fish Factory was looking very fine from above with only one lonely SUP-guy out, but as I already had my share of waves I resisted paddling out into these often pretty polluted waters. Instead I went for further exploration to the flint stone reefs. Here it was tiny and the now westerly wind didnīt improve the waves. I had a short siesta, knowing that the wind was forecasted to turn back south to southeast in the late afternoon.
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