Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Bigest Dust Storm In 40 Year's To Hit Sydney.

So i awoke to blood red sky's and a layer of brown dirt on everything. Flicked on the new's to see what this "event" was - A Dust Storm - The Biggest Sydney has had in over 40years.
Of Course health officials recommended no one to do any physical exercise outdoors till it had cleared. i took this recommendation into consideration and decided to go for a novelty boog in the dust storm.
To my surprise the wind's were offshore and there was around 1-2foot of peaky swell i managed to get some fun novelty waves to say i had boogered during it. But there were numerous problems that were effecting the way i could boog:
  • Firstly visibility was about -100000/10 - so it was extremely hard to see the waves coming. At one point when i was paddling back out, without realizing i paddled over the peak and about 80meter's out at see, the only reason i was able to stop is because i was near the point and was able to see the rock's.
  • Secondly i was still trying to figure out which was harder, trying to breath under water or trying to breath in the dust storm. was quite a difficult situation because, i used to be an asthmatic and i am also allergic to dust. quite a combination to be surfing in a dust storm.
All in All it was a fun surf and i was very orange by the end of it, funny how dust and water can stick to your wetty even while surfing.

Here is a picture i took from the car park to show the visibility and freaky Colours.

View From DeeWhy Car Park:

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