It only took a 200m stroll to the beach whilst dragging two sit top fishing kayaks. On arrival we could see the waves crashing in to the beach, making the activity more problematic than we hoped. Vicki, Amy and Kayla were all unsure about entering the sea, whereas Luke and myself saw no danger in what we were about to do. Feeling pretty confident since one of my hobbies is kayaking and having already kayaked on the sea a grand total of three times I was sure this would be easy. Turns out once we began to paddle out it wasn't as simple as it was in my little play boat, we were thrown around, bounced off the boat into a turbulent sea. After a few rough waves we hopped back on and carried on paddling out to deeper sea. once we were there we turned, waited for the biggest wave we could see, and paddled, paddling as fast as we could so we would get caught up on the crest of the wave.
"I'm surfing" I excitedly burst to myself. I found it a lot harder than in my own boat because you're not as stable on a sit top but it was still great fun.
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| Left: Dave Right: Luke |
FROM BEACH VIEW
The guys slowly dragged the kayaks into the sea pushing through the larger waves to avoid the current. Then they were off surfing wave after wave. I had trouble photographing them after they reached a certain point, so the camera was abandoned. After 20 minutes or so in it started to get more sketchy from what I could see and they were capsizing more often. It's quite a panicking sight as you can't do anything only stand there helpless. They both kept drifting into and out of sight behind the waves which panicked me. Eventually, they both make their way back in looking rather exhausted.
Looks good fun, it's a shame you don't have a surfing kayak that would be amazing fun like at Newquay.
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