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Hardest breaks to get in and out of
Dont think this one has been bought up before? Just list some spots you have surfed that are real dodgy to get in or out of 
In no particular order...
1. Big Low tide south piha, Jumping off the ledge at camel rock. I backed out from this one the white water was flowing over it on the sets and thats when you had to jump because its so high up, im sure if you miss the peak of the swell you will fall 5 or 6 metres!
2. White Rock Seconds. Probably the hardest point break Ive ever had to get in and out of. Dont know what you would do when it starts to get over 4 foot and even that was hard enough.
3. Spuds Local. 2 Right hand breaks there are just ridiculous, 1 I just got washed into the rocks and that was the end of my surf and luckily the other has been good to me and let me through but still bloody tricky.
I guess its just about timing but its easy to get it wrong in the ocean. Probly other tricky ones but those are what came to mind first.
burliegh heads is a mare bigger than 4ft.
and i rember once at hot water beach and saliours on the same day that had the most hideous closeouts in the shories. add to that random rocks and it was quite sketchy
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I agree about Seconds. Timing is crucial.
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I remember Lennox Heads as being a nightmare. And maybe Mangas also - similar RH points on shallow round slippery racks.
The welly wave "happy house" is very tricky, unless you're happy with a long paddle around
Big Low tide south piha, Jumping off the ledge at camel rock.
did it one easter when it was about 8ft, i was looking at a few surfless days so had a go, ripped a massive chunk out of my foot and on the way down and paddled for ages but didnt get out the back, ended up belly boarding it in on the other side of lion, and was out of the water for 10 days with the 2cm x 4cm rip in my foot
when the bar is actually working the amount of water moving over the bank is insane, you can paddle for 15 mins and go nowhere when its 3ft..
back home theres a break that we occaisionally checked called crackington haven, we renamed it crackingbone haven because of the brick sized to 1ft diameter boulders gleefully waiting to break your shins in the shorey.
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theres a place called locos in spain, but I think i paddled out in the wrong place.
(actually I know i did ha ha )
or stuff up the first wave of a macking set at indicators - go direct to whale bay, do not pass go or collect $200
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I'd put a vote down for getting out of Mags. It's the water sucking almost dry but then absolutely nailing you before you can run.
And this has been said before, but again, getting out the back at Brights in a decent swell. Even 4ft can be hard slog, 5ft need luck, and 6ft, feckin forget it.
Mangamaunu, fukk thats a pain in the ass, esp on a lower tide.
and I'll second Magnet, getting in can be rough.
getting in and out of Kahutara at over 5-6ft is utter entertainment. Time it right and its sweet both ways. Time it wrong and getting out the back leaves you getting pounded to bits and hundreds of metres north, getting out of the water at the wrong spot leaves you in the "washing machine" and then negotiating a nice 8ft shorebreak.
Socials in Rarotonga.
Ankle deep water with no channels just razor sharp reef and thousands of urchins.
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Originally posted by: Ice
I remember Lennox Heads as being a nightmare. And maybe Mangas also - similar RH points on shallow round slippery racks.
The welly wave "happy house" is very tricky, unless you're happy with a long paddle around
Thats the one that owned me and I never made it out.
why is it that wellignton surf spots have such dumb names?
happy house?? really?
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yeah that hot water coming in is a pain had that a few times get destroyed in the shore break then it decides no actually you should get one more wave.
not really getting in is the issue but more back to the car when mangawhai bar is on and the tide is really starting to push on its way out the estuary had to do a couple of unwanted loops a couple of times there.
the last would be a wave kumara king likes, quite a pain with sharp shell encrusted rocky reef that is constantly varied depths along with a pleasant current that wants to push you down it so you get to experience as much of the reef as possible
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Super low tide...Toes...Oahu's South Shore...too shallow and too many sea urchins.
Super low tide...Shark Pit...Nor Cal...incredible rip that will suck you out and north so fast your head will spin...worst part is it's all cliff to the north and no beach to scramper for.
Any "victory at sea day" anywhere can be frustrating, but I got my a$$ handed to me at both Ocean Beach (San Fran) and Salmon Creek (nor cal) because sometimes you just have to try anyway 
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Originally posted by: krank
In no particular order...
1. Big Low tide south piha, Jumping off the ledge at camel rock. I backed out from this one the white water was flowing over it on the sets and thats when you had to jump because its so high up, im sure if you miss the peak of the swell you will fall 5 or 6 metres!
I don't know about the other two but in my Piha days it was easy to get out even on the biggest days by paddling out right up against the rocks. . plenty of drillings but the current and hard paddling would always do the trick. In fact I have never jumped off the rocks there ever, why not just paddle ?
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the sand has filled in piha horrendously Roy, Was talking to Roly not too long ago and was telling me about how its half as deep out behind the nun as it used to be how where it now breaks at 3 ft it used to break at 6.
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tho in saying that too ive usually just paddled out next to the rock and its sweet tho super low tide is prob another affair, if its the ones the other week was pretty much dry sand round lion rock apart from the channels
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Originally posted by: Roy_StewartOriginally posted by: krank
In no particular order...
1. Big Low tide south piha, Jumping off the ledge at camel rock. I backed out from this one the white water was flowing over it on the sets and thats when you had to jump because its so high up, im sure if you miss the peak of the swell you will fall 5 or 6 metres!
I don't know about the other two but in my Piha days it was easy to get out even on the biggest days by paddling out right up against the rocks. . plenty of drillings but the current and hard paddling would always do the trick. In fact I have never jumped off the rocks there ever, why not just paddle ?
Na its pretty much impossible to paddle out hugging the rocks on a low tide and solid swell. Unless your super lucky and get a freak lull. Sweep goes right in a hurry.
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balangan first surf ever in indo,easy getting out
3/6 ft then it just got bigger by the set,45min
latter it was huge biggest waves i had ever been in
totally out of the old comfort zone,getting in was
a huge drop followed by rail hugging prone out
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W*****a reef, worst I've ever seen razor sharp boulders on the inside and no channel. Far worse than seconds. Best way to the break is by boat.
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I,d have say paddling the Seaway to south Straddie is a freaky experience the first time, Theres a huge sign discribing the dangers,
1 Extreme Currents,
2 Sharks,
3 Large vessles entering and exciting,
4 Your so called mates winding you up about the sharks!
oh and slippy and sharp volcanic rocks getting in and out of the Seaway.
Apart form that its a great wave!!
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Originally posted by: CavesOriginally posted by: Roy_StewartOriginally posted by: krank
In no particular order...
1. Big Low tide south piha, Jumping off the ledge at camel rock. I backed out from this one the white water was flowing over it on the sets and thats when you had to jump because its so high up, im sure if you miss the peak of the swell you will fall 5 or 6 metres!
I don't know about the other two but in my Piha days it was easy to get out even on the biggest days by paddling out right up against the rocks. . plenty of drillings but the current and hard paddling would always do the trick. In fact I have never jumped off the rocks there ever, why not just paddle ?
Na its pretty much impossible to paddle out hugging the rocks on a low tide and solid swell. Unless your super lucky and get a freak lull. Sweep goes right in a hurry.
It must have changed a lot, I know that a lot more sand has filled in since 1985. Back then everyone paddled out through a really narrow rip whih was right next to the rocks, coming around the big rock in the middle one would usually get drilled but the current would pull one through the impact zone.
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pascuales or puerto escondido. 4-10ft beaches with no channel and a rip that tracks right into the impact zone.
Hard work.
Originally posted by: Jabes
the sand has filled in piha horrendously Roy, Was talking to Roly not too long ago and was telling me about how its half as deep out behind the nun as it used to be how where it now breaks at 3 ft it used to break at 6.
Yeah it used to hold a lot more size, I remember about '85 when Roly's shop was down in the corner next to the car park, the bar had stopped breaking properly and he said that it was all over for the bar, lots of people said no it was just a temporary cyclical change. There was a newspaper article which showed a humungous 2k square sand and silt bank which had been moving north from Port waikato for years and which had finally hit Piha.
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Originally posted by: Jabes
tho in saying that too ive usually just paddled out next to the rock and its sweet tho super low tide is prob another affair, if its the ones the other week was pretty much dry sand round lion rock apart from the channels
Far out it was always quite deep around lion rock even on low tides back in the 80's. Glad i had the best of it
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Originally posted by: campleader
I,d have say paddling the Seaway to south Straddie is a freaky experience the first time, Theres a huge sign discribing the dangers,
1 Extreme Currents,
2 Sharks,
3 Large vessles entering and exciting,
4 Your so called mates winding you up about the sharks!
oh and slippy and sharp volcanic rocks getting in and out of the Seaway.
I think it's funny about worrying about the sharks paddling across the channels, wouldn't there be just as much in the line up haha.
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Originally posted by: campleader
I,d have say paddling the Seaway to south Straddie is a freaky experience the first time, Theres a huge sign discribing the dangers,
1 Extreme Currents,
2 Sharks,
3 Large vessles entering and exciting,
4 Your so called mates winding you up about the sharks!
oh and slippy and sharp volcanic rocks getting in and out of the Seaway.
Apart form that its a great wave!!
its a b1tch when you cut your foot on the climb down before the crossing..caught a maori stargaser in the seaway,looked like something out of jurassic park
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Originally posted by: johnnybOriginally posted by: campleader
I,d have say paddling the Seaway to south Straddie is a freaky experience the first time, Theres a huge sign discribing the dangers,
1 Extreme Currents,
2 Sharks,
3 Large vessles entering and exciting,
4 Your so called mates winding you up about the sharks!
oh and slippy and sharp volcanic rocks getting in and out of the Seaway.
I think it's funny about worrying about the sharks paddling across the channels, wouldn't there be just as much in the line up haha.
Most attacks in Queensland are in the seaways for some reason the sharks go up them in numbers, probably after fish and the odd aussie!
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..and cus sitting in currents is easy work..
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Some old timer I hired a board from in Aus sent me to south straddie, but I have to admit I chickened out. Was alright waaay down the other end at dbah later in the day though, so all's well that ends well. Easy as paddle out there at 3-4ft beside the rocks at the right hand end.
Originally posted by: Roy_StewartOriginally posted by: Jabes
tho in saying that too ive usually just paddled out next to the rock and its sweet tho super low tide is prob another affair, if its the ones the other week was pretty much dry sand round lion rock apart from the channels
Far out it was always quite deep around lion rock even on low tides back in the 80's. Glad i had the best of it
Roy, you can now walk around Lion Rock on super low tides. Not always though.
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the westcoast sweep can be a b!tch.
they used to have a bouy at muriwai you could hold onto for a breather.
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The first time I went to Whiterock, a few decades ago, I went out on a 6 ft plus day at Seconds on my own and couldn't get back in. Got caught in the shorebreak on the rocks on the inside and got absolutely hammered. Couldn't get back out through the whitewater and couldn't get up onto the rocks. I was sh1ting.
Swore i would give up surfing if I got out alive.
Wrecked my board but eventually washed up across the rocks against the cliffs. Went back on my promise of course but have had a very healthy respect for Whiterock ever since.
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Originally posted by: Caves
Roy, you can now walk around Lion Rock on super low tides. Not always though.
hmmm, i wonder if it is sand build up?..maybe it's further proof of the expanding earth?
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Originally posted by: seekaOriginally posted by: Caves
Roy, you can now walk around Lion Rock on super low tides. Not always though.
hmmm, i wonder if it is sand build up?..maybe it's further proof of the expanding earth?
Yes its sand Seeka. Not like the tide comes in any further aye fella.
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i think you missed my point. parts of nz is rising up out of the ocean.
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see here Caves..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oBAbD8bhoM [youtube.com]
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Originally posted by: seeka
i think you missed my point. parts of nz is rising up out of the ocean.
Ya reckon ?
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Originally posted by: seeka
see here Caves..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oBAbD8bhoM [youtube.com]
Too long, nearly fell asleep. Hardest break for you Seeka ?
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too long? it's 3 mins...and makes perfect sense.
hardest break to get in and out off? hmmmm...most of them around here are hard to get into..especially when the air temp is 3 dgrs and the water temp is 8 dgrs and the sand is frozen.
nicks can be a pr1ck to stay on spot..and is a bit tricky getting in and out off...fine wave though, when it's on.
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Originally posted by: CavesOriginally posted by: Roy_StewartOriginally posted by: krank
In no particular order...
1. Big Low tide south piha, Jumping off the ledge at camel rock. I backed out from this one the white water was flowing over it on the sets and thats when you had to jump because its so high up, im sure if you miss the peak of the swell you will fall 5 or 6 metres!
I don't know about the other two but in my Piha days it was easy to get out even on the biggest days by paddling out right up against the rocks. . plenty of drillings but the current and hard paddling would always do the trick. In fact I have never jumped off the rocks there ever, why not just paddle ?
Na its pretty much impossible to paddle out hugging the rocks on a low tide and solid swell. Unless your super lucky and get a freak lull. Sweep goes right in a hurry.
Last weekend, full low tide a frien and I paddled out, I was lucky enough to sneak a gap between sets and I popped out with nary a wet hair on my head. My mate who hugged the rocks got hammered.
Later I rode a wave almost to the beach and decided not to do the hard grind over the ditch again so I waded back to the bar thinking I'd just pop out again. A minute later the sweep had me right back where I'd been 10 minutes before with no option but to hammer through the ditch. That sweep can be a tricky wee mongrel.
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Originally posted by: dumbbell
Some old timer I hired a board from in Aus sent me to south straddie, but I have to admit I chickened out. Was alright waaay down the other end at dbah later in the day though, so all's well that ends well. Easy as paddle out there at 3-4ft beside the rocks at the right hand end.
wtf are you on db htfu this is the most lame ars3 little story ever you should be ashamed of your self
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Originally posted by: Blunt
I agree about Seconds. Timing is crucial.
I don't know if it was seconds but that place was a b*tch, i think i sliped 3 or 4 times between the rocks a right f*cking b^tch, in fact i think it was the only time where i gritted my teeth and considererd if it was worth going out.
Yeh but the timing was cool though
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Theres a spot down here that when it gets big, you have to paddle around the front of a dry shelf to get out, timing it with a set so you don't get drifted onto dry rock, or drifted too far down the beach and stuck in the impact zone.
Then on the way in you come in a different way because the current it too strong to come in the way you came out, you have to line up this 5m wide gap in the cliff, and make sure you don't get drifted past it. if you do miss it, the current is usually to hard to paddle against, and you have a nice 2-3km paddle to the next spot where you can get out
Frog rock, east cape.
Port reef
Eliots..big long walk over rocks
Some of the river bars in northland if u try to paddle outon incoming tide
Long Bay point..long slippery walk
is it blue house or Pines..difficult paddle between rocks
Originally posted by: jelly
wtf are you on db htfu this is the most lame ars3 little story ever you should be ashamed of your self
Nah I just don't see the need to be a hero. I am what I am. Happened to be super stoked with Dbah in the end anyway!
haha long bay is hardly that tricky sure its a bit slippery but its not horrendous
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the paddle out is easy but the walk is very slippery on moss encrusted rocks..try it in the dark
..orewa on a day when it is breaking 100metres offshore.endless lines of whitewater..or on a stormie day..long paddle out the back
Leith road..massive shorey surges up over boulders..difficult to paddle in on
the other one thats a bit of a pain is Bluehouse specially as it gets bigger been destroyed on those rocks a few times
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Raro was nuts, set would come and you had to duckdive but you couldn't cause it was so shallow and you could see huge kina all around past the impact zone. so mash fingers and knees on the reef whenever a wave rears up, if you were too far in.
Hamiltons Gap
Originally posted by: SNAP
why is it that wellignton surf spots have such dumb names?
happy house?? really?
Name some other Wellington spots.
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Originally posted by: Jabes
the other one thats a bit of a pain is Bluehouse specially as it gets bigger been destroyed on those rocks a few times
Yeah, I've been worked there.
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paddled across to south straddie with my mate, all of a sudden he lets out a blood curdling scream cos his hand hit a fat 2ft fish, he was behind me when i looked round we were both trailing 5 or six of the buggers... just following us, maybe they knew something we didnt and were hanging around for the scraps.
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Originally posted by: dumbbellNah I just don't see the need to be a hero. I am what I am. Happened to be super stoked with Dbah in the end anyway!
didnt reckon God would protect the righteous then
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big lake fiery stranded waist deep in fast moving liquefaction sand with 6ft walls of whitewater above you is freaky. Freakier is trying to paddle back in under the same conditions on the turning tide.
And Raro rates as BC has mentioned.