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In accordance to the unwritten pointbreak lineup rules I did not paddle straight to the main peak and instead sat a bit wider until a set came and the locals took off for their ride. Only then I moved to the outer peak and miraculously stayed there alone. All but one local had used that last set to surf to the beach and leave.
So I sat there in pole position but for a pretty long time no similar set arrived. So I paddled further in to avoid to get cold and wanted to take at least one of the smaller waves. These had a tricky take-off and demanded a quickness that I didnīt have at least at my first attempt which resulted in a wipeout onto shallow rock bottom. Paddling back out I had to duckdive the set that I was waiting for at the outer peak.
So I paddled back out there and had to wait. Waiting for a set isnīt that boring here as you have all of this fantastic cliffs to look on. Meanwhile my last fellow surfing companion left the lineup too. I was out there alone.
It took me a while to realize why I had the privilege to sit out there alone. The waves had vanished. The tide had gone too low now to transform the swell into breaking waves here. This is one of the great disadvantages of The Channel. The tide hub of about 10 meter changes surf conditions very fast and this point obviously had a very small time slot of the tide and swell and reef cooperating. At least it was the case with this small ground-swell.
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follow these links for some more impressions from the cliffs and the left.
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