artificial means 26th sept

What to do when mother nature can’t provide?? well you seek other means. After a week long flat spell and even longer since any of us got barrelled, Mat Wyborn’s birthday gathering couldn’t have come at a better time. You see he invited a bunch of mates to his party which happen to be at a prototype wave pool in a secret shed location. This is a brand new model was throwing man-made stand up barrels thanks to a heavy diesel generator and litres of gushing water. The owner/designer of the wave machine said he has many improvements to make, but I can tell you some of Coffs best surfers were having an absolute ball…. giggling like little kids in a playground. The potential for this thing is pretty exciting.

Birthday boy; Mat Wyborn…… great party dude.. yew!!

Cameron Lindsay frothing!!

Pool side gallery…. about 3 meters from their mates in the chorine tubes

The man behind this “fun as” contraption

There’s a fair bit of energy going on in this thing… photos probably don’t do it justice. There are plans for this to be available to the Coffs Harbour public in the future…. I reckon its going be a hit once the final model is released.

Solitary Islands “Free learn to surf day” was a great success on Saturday… Woopi main provided some perfect little peeling waves that were so well suited to the little tackers…. it was the first time that most of them had ever stood up on a surfboard… safe to say there were stacks of grommets with massive smiles, their parents were even more chuffed. Surf Groms programs kick off on the 8th October. Regular surf lessons through “Solitary Islands school” have already begun.