An awesome evening !

(RAT). We left at 12pm and dared to drive 2½hrs thru the pissing rain in 8 deg temps and turned up to really nice and reasonably solid surf yesterday,(thurs 2nd oct).
It was me, Andrew and a newcomer to 'Swedish Waters', Woodsy from Vicco. Jay and Johan had to work
The prognosis had said that the wind would back off so we were hoping for a bigger swell than last time with the same sort of conditions but unfortunately the wind didn't back off and it was sort of side shore, sometimes offshore gusting surf that we got.

The swell was definitely bigger, much bigger, than last time and there were a few tubes to be had, and they were taken (off course) when then chance arrived..
As usual, no-one wanted to stand and take any photo's after pulling up and seeing the sets unload down the point so the photo's don't do justice to how good some of the waves were, but they give a little taste of what it was like.

Woodsy got initiated with the very comfortable temps of @ 11 deg water and after struggling on his 6'1"salt water thruster, (as first time 'freshwater' surfers do), hopped onto my 6' fish and caught some good waves. Andrew paddled further up the point and caught a few out the back before sneaking in where we were and getting a few beauties as well
When the good ones came thru you could ride them for @100m and they got quicker down the line. It was unreal to get wet again and IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GUNNA BE ON AGAIN ON SUNDAY WITH A 4M+ SWELL BREWING FROM THE SOUTH EAST.

Here's some of the shots we took, sorry that they don't do the surf justice really! I got 2 tubes and one of them was a stand-up 'hands in the air' section that I came out of dry...other than the odd barrelling section, the rides were often quick sucky faces with the occasional fat rolling wave that didn't link up properly but the ones that did link up were screamers and after 3 hrs I was totally spagetti armed..I think that Andrew and Woodsy were also pretty knackered and after a 2½hr drive we got home at 9pm..pray for surf on Sunday, then the whole crew will be able to go I think...Peace from the everliving, evercheerful RATMAN

check how big the wave is by the cabin 50m behind it!!! (jay- that's like saying "look how small the Eifle Tower is!" when you are standing a mile away from it and touching the tip Johan! haha)

A realistic distance shot, @100m away
Closer view
even closer yumm yumm tubing sections at 4-5ft....
woodsy about to dive into the baltic for the 1st time and the last photo is woodsy ridin a nice one