Gower Sessions

We got two sweet Gower sessions in the last 12 hours or so. Its not too often that the conditions and the motivation required show up together, since one or both of them are going to happen at a ridiculus hour of the day! Unfortunatly the way the tides worked out this time it meant that the first session was yesterday night/this morning from 12 untill about 2am! Apart from the lack of daylight tho everything else worked out perfect. The wave was working really well, high paddle-on level and there was plenty of light coming from the council offices on the far side of the river to see what you were doing. It wasnt even cold at all, pretty surprising for 2am on a February morning!

Luckily since the wave was only working in the afternoon the next morning we were able to have a pretty decent lie in. We headed out to Gower at about 12.30 expecting to find a perfect wave only to be greeted with a water level lower than I've ever paddled Gower at and all the islands in the middle of the river at least a foot out of the water. Luckily since we had nothing better to be doing we decided to get on anyway to see what the small wave that was there was like to paddle.

Almost as soon as we got on the water the level started to rise, going from dirt low at the start of the session to high and paddle-on at the end! Trufst the ESB to be screwing around with the water but I guess its better than having them turn off the water as soon as we get there! In the end we had a class session on it, I spent a while practising competition runs for the next round of the national league thats on here in a few weeks time which went pretty well, really looking forward to that competition now.

There was even a photographer there who got a few sweet shots, talk about all the stars aligning!





I got some footage of Dave there too, I'll throw that together and put it up here when I'm done.