On th 25th of January Tony walsh and Myself had planned to be hittting Bunmahon early for
some big surf. Magicseaweed.com had predicted 10ft swell and 8mph offshore winds around
12pm. When we arrived in Bunmahon shortly after 12 we realised things were alot different, things were very calm inland away from the coast and we thought we were in for a sweet day. In
Bunmahon the tide was fully in throwing huge on to the stoney beach and the wind was close to 30mph onshore. We said we'd take a spin down the coast road to see what we could find,
planning on heading all the way to Tramore if necessary. We only got as far as Kilmurrin Cove, just 5 minutes from Bunmahon on a big horse shoe in the coast road around a sheltered bay. There were two or three surfers and another paddler out there. Gary Fox was the paddler an activity instructor in Dunmore Adventure centre.
The surf was big at the mouth but then calmed and rose up again inside the muth of the bay, the
nauture of the small bay ment it was quiet sheltered from the strong wind. We hopped on
anyway and found the conditions much to our liking. Tony was quiet nervous we'd never surfed in Kimurrin, Tony gone on Xmas day swims there but didn't fancy one today. I should add that some weeks before Xmas Tony had his deck popped by much smaller surf in Bunmahon which was making him anxious in bigger surf. He was right to be once you got anywhere near to were the surf peaked it was huge the surfers didnt event venture out there. I got a serious ass whipping when i got front flipped try to take off on a steep one and almost lost hold of my paddle amongst the foam pile.
We paddled around for about hour or more with a break in the middle. I managed some big blunts and an airscrew or donkey flip I'm not sure. One of them happened when Tony was right beside me on a wvae he said he looked over and I was totally clean high out of the water. Needless to say it was a good day in the end. With the only major concern was getting on dry land and out of your boat on the steep stoney bank of a beach head before you got dumped on
my the next wave as the tide rolled in.
Since then three really hasn't been any notable surf to mention and nothing we have gone paddling for. The next two weeks look quiet on the forecast too so maybe its time to concertrate on some study and college work. We had the Varsities last weekend too so still slowly recovering from that.
Before I go I got to give say thanks to Gary Fox who took the pictures above and to Willy McCarthy and Mark Barry in Munster Dive and Canoe who's Project 52 I have shamlessly robbed since last November. I swear I'll return it soon good as new. The next couple of blogs posts will be extremely dorky posts about boats and possible modifications and the Kayakfoundery kayak designing computer program I've been messing with lately, unless there's surf in the mean time. Thanks for reading cya later
