Thursday, Mar 04, 2010 at 17:15
No I missed it, But I could imagine their frustration with some peoples attitude towards swimming at
the beach. I have watched small segments of the show and it amazes me how stupid some people are.
A perfect EG of this was at South
Ballina Beach not that long ago. There are two kids now without parents. Now people are calling for
the beach to be patrolled. As if thats going to happen.
As a kid growing up in
Ballina, At the age of 13, I made my first trip across the River at the bar, to go surfing at South Wall. We would hear that there was good waves over there so we would sit and watch the tide. We would then walk up river or out along the break walls and paddle out and across. We would end up on the other side not far from the Caravan Park. Spend most of the day over there, then watch the tide movement again, decide where to jump in & paddle back. For 10 odd years we did this with out an incident. Then some stupid tourists thought they would give it a go. They got swept out to sea and now it's illegal.
We use to use rips to our advantage to get out the back quicker, saved a hell of a lot of paddling.
This all might seem like a stupid thing to do, but by sitting and watching for a good 1/2 hour or more you got to see what the water/rips and the tide was doing.
In all the years of surfing, not once did I ever get into trouble, even in 14ft + waves at The Wreck, The Pass, Tallows, Lennox,
Ballina North Wall.
But I sure did help pull a few stupid people out of the water over the years.
Anyway, As I said, Some ya just can't tell.
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