Woke up this morning at 5.30am and checked port of tauranga harbour conditions. Showing 1.7m hmm still pretty big. Then it showed 2.1m so I went back to bed. Then I saw 1.4m so inspired by Noponies I thought I'd check it out.
It didn't look great but doable. No one else out but I convinced myself to go.
Took a wave on the way out which knocked off my ff but i have it leashed. I should have stowed it. Took a while to get it to fire up but eventually it did and I headed to the mark.
Conditions were mint out there, glassy calm.
Lots of sign on the mark and 2 quick pannies and lost a good trev with a snapped leader. Soon after another good trev came up. A few cod throw backs but couldn't quite get back on the snapper. Came in early as I had a feed and wanted to get the surf re entry out the way 😄
Not many gaps in the waves but I surfed a smaller one in and just made it. Jumped out but my kayak got sucked back into the shore break and luckily surfed in upright by itself.
Hard earned feed