After our early start from the truck stop we were moving quickly and arrived at Lennox Head just as the cafes were opening. Lennox Head is one of Australia’s classic right hand point breaks and I had been looking forward to surfing it.
Sadly the swell direction was wrong for the point, meaning that the waves were largely just crashing on the rocks that line the shore there as opposed to breaking all along the headland.
Not to worry I will get a second chance at the point later on my travels. Everybody else was heading for the waves breaking on the beach in front of the town so I decided to do likewise, but not until Neil and I had grabbed a coffee.
At the till the young lady serving took great delight in telling me to watch out for the 10′ tiger shark which had been regularly cruising through the break in recent weeks. Great! Thanks for that. It was just what I needed before paddling out!
On this piece of advice Neil decided to pass on the session, leaving me to paddle out across the inshore to the spot where the waves were breaking. Sadly my Gopro ran out of battery almost as soon as I got in the water so I took solace in knowing that at least there would not be any footage of my untimely demise in the water.
There were a few people out, with the usual smattering of SUPs (Stand Up Paddle boards) hogging the break. I haven’t got a real problem with any surf craft, just the owners of them and today there was one old bloke who wasn’t even satisfied with taking the lions share of waves, and started dropping in on mine as well.
As ever you wouldn’t mind so much if the person concerned looked like this but he didn’t and I told the crusty old goat where to get off, after which he gave me enough space to catch plenty of my own in the head high and clean waves. I was out for a few hours with no signs of of the Tiger Shark too, which was a result.
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