OK, so I managed to get in yesterday evening for a short half hour session, and at a new spot for me; Sandilands. But....

......I couldn't help feeling as I drove home, that I have lost the level of enthusiasm a surfer requires to practice his/her chosen past-time along this stretch of coast. I know why it is of course, it's a two fold 'problem'. Firstly since the end of 2001-Feb 02, water time there has been lacking severely. And secondly our rejuvenated plans to get sold up and move west have, since Easter, built up momentum. The Lincs coast just doesn't compete anymore. [If indeed it ever did!]

That said, I shall keep taking every available opportunity to get in there; pride if nothing else to get back into a rythmn and have some waves will force the issue. I know there's a confidence thing in the background too. Maybe sometime tomorrow or over the weekend I can get a handle on it again. Yesterday evening I didn't though. Sandilands just didn't do it for me. Paddled out, bobbed around a bit, paddled against the longshore rip, no waves scored, messy, lumpy, got out :o( Should have followed my instincts when I got there and carried on to Huttoft, where Naips + co were. Looked a little more do-able. Later...
posted by wollocks at 8:55 AM