On it's day Crab Island is a wave hard to beat, and today it was magic for a golden hour Tom Fisher and myself surfed big lumps by ourselves. This was the best crab day since December 17th 2005, tom kicked off the session on a macker of a wave close to triple overhead.
He paddled hard, got held in the lip and got 'marmalised' he disappeared for 20 minutes after a 200 meter drag underwater and getting pinned in amongst the nasty sharp rocks that make Crab so special.
Fair play he paddled back out and caught loads of bombs in the next hour or so, the swell dropped as the tide got lower and a few guys ventured out one of whom got nailed in the 'nightmare' section and looked like death when he got back to the line up, the only reason he paddled back out was to find out the safest way to get in.
Plenty of sets and loads of current made for non stop paddling for two hours but it was worth it, all out there had fantastic waves and look forward to the next magical Crab day hopefully we do not have to wait for two years.
p.s I had to laugh as we reached the car park a pro photographer was heading to the beach to take shots! I just wish I had a digital water proof camera this morning as they would have made front covers of most surfing magazines.
