West coast surf adventure

tribal · Posted: Jun 15, 2005 10:57 am Post subject: West coast surf adventure

Well it's been such a crappy spring here in W Canada,not much wakeskating weather that I thought I would take the boat on a different type of adventure.All this crappy weather means swell so me and a bud decided we would go on a wakeskate,surf trip to a remote area of BC's west coast in seach of waves.4 hrs of boating in calm sea's got us to our destination.Sick reef passes Twisted Evil

very tropical looking.As we were watching our first right hander fire from the boat a huge gray whale surfaced 50 ft from the boat Twisted Evil

,sick!!!
Anchorage was fairly protected from the swell between the reefs and all looked good.Had some good surf the first couple days but needed a little more size to make the place go off.Swell pick's up but so does wind in the wrong direction,next thing we know when listening to the weather radio when these winds shift instead of going calm again there is another major storm coming with storm force 50 knts winds.The boat has already been looking a little sketchy at this anchorage with the last storm and 30 knt winds so we figure we better get out of there.
Craziest boat driving I've ever done 4ft wind chop and a 8ft ground swell.At least we were going with it but the route back was super tech with bombies and reef's everywhere.2 hrs of rad driving and we were out of the bad shizzle without even a splash in the boat.Gotta love those big old I/O's Very Happy

Never did get to wakeskate Confused

Amazing and wild place,wolves walking 10 ft from our tent door Shocked

I'll be back Twisted Evil

tribal · Posted: Jun 15, 2005 10:59 am Post subject:

more pic's

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and more

tribal · Posted: Jun 15, 2005 11:08 am Post subject:

some more

tribal · Posted: Jun 15, 2005 11:10 am Post subject:

last ones

tribal · Posted: Jun 24, 2005 11:52 am Post subject:

Can't believe no ones even interested in wolves Crying or Very sad

Schimkat · Posted: Jun 24, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject:

tribal, we're all in such awe of the awesome pics, we cant type. Laughing

Whats a bombie?

TannerC · Backside 180 Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 1694 City: Nanaimo

Where exactley did you guys go? Looks like a good time, I love surfing but the waves arent all that great where we surf.
Nice pics by the way. Should have skated in that butter.

tribal · Posted: Jun 24, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject:

Shimkat A bombie's a reef, coral or rock, all by itself in the Sea.Causes a wave and the possibility of grounding in the middle of nowhere.
Beaver All I can say is it's on the northern part of Vancouver Island somewhere.A surfer never tell's Wink

We were kicking ourselves for not skating the butter afterward but we were on a mission to get to the surf.

Glad you guy's liked the pics.