Around The World In 80 Waves

After Apollo Bay I keep following coast road until see signs for the town of Anglesea. It is also the name of a large island off the coast of North Wales where I learned my trade in the breaks at Rhosneigr, Aberffraw and Cable Bay.

As a consequence I cant resist stopping the van and going for a surf here. A brief walk to the top of the sand dunes next to the car park and I discover clean thigh high waves right along the bay.

I climb back into my wetsuit which is still cold and wet from Apollo Bay, which is never a pleasant experience.

The battery on the gppro is flat by this stage so I don’t have any pictures to share of the fun waves I caught here but I had so much fun in the water with the break all to myself for an hour. That is until a Surf School arrived and my bliss was gone forever as thirty teenage beginners dropped in on everything with out the slightest care about me or my board.

I decide to get out shortly afterwards, but discover that if I thought that was busy I should have been here last November, when the for the twenty fifth anniversary of the surf school.

They set a world record with at least one hundred and twenty people surfing the same wave here. The local ding repair shop must have done a roaring trade for weeks!