Laden

The huge swell on Wednesday managed to rip up most of the seaweed sitting off the rocks at the North end. It most likely borrowed quite a bit of it from coastal areas both North and South of here too. It left the right-handers rolling into the bay with a distinct cookies and cream look. Just a little bit heavier and probably more on the salty side of sweet.

Most people seemed to be giving these ones a miss or kicking out before the inside. Not surprising. When the Summer ends and the first Autumn storms roll through the seaweed sheds even heavier than this. Paddling through it turns your leash into some kind of purse seine net that grabs as much junk as it can. Either way, it leaves you in the distinctly uncomfortable unpleasantness of being stuck in a shore break with what feels like a hundred tentacles grabbing at your arms and legs (medium sized not giant tentacles but nevertheless) and what feels like the inert body of a 100kg wrestler attached to your leash. It takes a steely constitution to consider getting yourself stuck int his position more than once.

Looks inviting..	...until it turns into this. Cookies and cream look.
Another one rolls in through the seaweed	A tiny one laden with seaweed.