We watched the shark cruise through the Seal Point beachbreak line-up on Monday. It looked big, about 8 feet or so in length, with some serious girth, but it was languid. It showed no interest in the few surfers out there, including one of my children – I know, not the best parenting skills at all. The shark eventually drifted down the beach and away from where an absolutely perfect A-Frame peak had formed recently.
A-Frame peak?
Here’s a pretty good description – “An A-frame peak in surfing is a wave that has a peak in the middle of the wave face that breaks left and right simultaneously. It is a peak with an equal slope in both directions, just like the letter A, which is how it got its name.
A-frame waves are popular with surfers because they allow surfers to ride in either direction or for two surfers to ride in opposite directions. This is called “splitting the peak” (as opposed to spitting the winkle, another cute surfer term – ed..)*
A-frame waves also allow surfers to practice both forehand and backhand surfing.”
A fun, before-school early morning surf was disturbed by another shark amongst the surfers on Tuesday morning. Subsequently, the perfect waves were empty when I arrived around lunchtime.
A quick drone reconnaissance showed three sharks in the vicinity: one big boy and two smaller ones. They looked like Bronze Whalers, but no one was taking any chance. Except for two locals and my son, again. I quickly paddled out for support.
After an hour, one guy went in as he was hungry and needed vittles. So, three of us surfed an empty, perfect A-frame peak as other surfers gathered at the car park. Some stood on their cars and the benches and pointed at things in the ocean. Someone had posted about the sharks on social media, and the word was out.
The water had this brown/green tinge to it, and there was a bit of eeriness to the experience that heightened the senses. It might be what made it so special.
While I do not recommend or condone it – surfing when there are sharks in the area is not the cleverest approach to take – it was a glorious session that I will remember for a long time. Our wave counts were so high, with non-stop perfect waves pouring through.
“This is one of the best surfs I have had this year,” said the local surfer. We were eventually exhausted and saw a few guys getting ready for a surf and suiting up, so we went in, satisfied.
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