Today is a bit overcast and cloudy, with snow on the ground from Wednesday. However, wind is non-existent, with a nice swell wrapping all the way around the point. To get a feel for the wave size, check out the buildings on the point, they are a bit hard to see with all the snow. Should be some head-high sets +, with inc. tide and adm. for the most part.
This small barren islet is located off shore of a North Atlantic village, with some waves breaking into a channel of deeper water.
The photo below shows a different angle on a different day. Look at waves peeling further in to the inlet. Pretty interesting. With some bigger swells there would be some nice waves coming through these parts.
top photo cred: sanda, bottom photo cred: christensen
Curl up in a nook with a good book, or swindle a crook to curl up with his Kindle. Be sure to catch a cold curl to pass time, after your e-book batteries dwindle.
I’ve been closed down these last few days with sickness, and the effects have taken a bite, but with time even this cold will be weathered.
Short attention spans and claw-fingers: no, not the description of a surfer in the arctic, but rather the symptoms of the internet-addicted generation of the new millennium. Today’s surfers-of-the-web spend more and more time searching the Google than shredding the gnar. While you think about that, think about this. Right now there is the possibility that a team of Moscovian explorers on the trans-siberian railroad are headed to the russian coastline to document polar russian waves, camera in hand, and guitar tuned to the tune “Something Something Khrushchev”.
In arctic Europe there are cliffs that go right into the ocean. When winter comes, the snows and gales start up and the beaches welcome waves from all around.
Have you ever wondered whether waves are related to one another? If there is some sort of family tree of barrels, or an ancestry of A-frames? While it is easy to compare two different surf spots based on similar wave forms, the crucial modifier always has to be included, such as ‘the Pipeline of California’, or ‘the Lower Trestles of Lake Superior’, so that it is clear which family it aaaactually belongs to. The point is, what if all of these super-good waves and world-class waves are actually just imitations of the real one? And what if that real one is in Antarctica?
This break right here only works on a very particular angular of swell, as it is recessed in a back corner of Patagonia and is partially blockaded by an island. But when it does work, well, you can see how perfect the sand bar is.
Local scenery includes wildlife and mountain ranges:
