The tide was still pretty low and the first waves broke far outside. There were nice peaks all over and the waves got cleaner minute by minute. Our crew had been completed by Jens and Bernd, which meant that now about two third of the north german surfsite webmasters were surfing together. If a fatal freak wave would have occured now it would have put massive damage to the northern surfer community.......

The sight of the black rubber men with surfboards under their arms coming across that perfect white snow field to paddle out into sea was a bizzar occurance. But with the absence of wind the zero degree celsius air and eight degree water temperature allmost felt comfortable. So the guys stayed in the water up to three hours, interrupted only by short walks along the beach to get back into that comfortable elevator current that dragged them back into the lineup without weven wettig their neopren hoods. Clean lines now were rolling in, sometimes playing silly games with the surfers as in teasing´em with perfect walls that would vanish a couple of meters later. The round waves favoured longboards but still delivered the odd punchy wall to speed up a shortboarder. The lefts were usually better than the rights. The mood in the lineup was very relaxed and guys were hooting on each others ride. Nothing compared to the summer madnes. The whole thing was lit by a fantastic nordic sun that didn´t make it too far up the firmament but sent the most beautifull coloured rays.

Iceman Maik was the one who stayed out the longest and didn´t hesitate to do summer tricks in the middle of winter. Surfing switch stance and hanging five (may be it was a cheater five) he showed a “I don´t care about the cold water and by the way it is not really cold” attitude. Jens grabbed some bombs with his stick, Timo controlled the lineup with long rides and Bernd fighted his way into the wave of the day. All of ´em had fun and came back to shore absolutely stoked.

For me this was an interresting observation as I thought that these guys had reached a certain limit in surfing at these temperatures. But this didn´t look too extreme. In fact it looked really easy. So the limit in this region seems to be somewhere else. Maybe a bit further north at these T-bone shaped jetties that can provide these sucky rights with the right tide - swell - wind combination....

Lets push on and see if we can find it, that perfect winter swell combined with offshore winds and a little bit of snow!

For more impressions of that day check the December Gold film clip.

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