Surfs Up

Patrick has been going surfing with a mate (J) from school and using his board. We bought a surfboard for him yesterday off a mate of Dave's from work and he wanted to race straight out and try it. So we headed off to YMC? Beach (near Smith's Beach) {this is where Patrick had been going with J and his parent but we hadn't been before}.

The water was very cold even though it was a hot day. Dave and I only got our feet in to start off with. Nick stood about knee deep for ages. We went up and sat on the sand and watched Pat and J. Nick eventually got in and after a while Patrick let him have a go and then J let him have a go on his board.

The funniest thing that we didn't get on film was when Dave and I were sitting and talking and a wave came out of no where and rolled up the beach towards us and we only just started picking up our stuff off the mat (camera, mobile phone, clothes, towels, shoes, water bottle, chocies) as it reached us. Unfortunately I didn't actually make it up off the mat just picked up handfuls of stuff and held them up. This meant I ended up with a wet backside and sand all up my shorts legs. So after moving all the gear I headed out till I was waste deep to try and get all the sand out of my shorts.

We'd been there for nearly an hour and a half and I decided that I would have a go so I headed out and took over Patricks board. I attempted to lay on the board while still in the shallows. Struggled to balance and not fall off. Eventually worked out my balance and started to paddle out. (Think I need some more upper arm strength). Used several waves to come back in but had an absolute ball.

We all headed off soon after.