Midnight runners score midnight sun gold!

Jay(Nanuq),Johan(alias kojak,puppet etc) and I (RATMAN),went for an all night session last night/morning tues/wed 17th-18th july. Remember it's light ALL NIGHT up here in summer.

We even managed to get Frexi to come. We rang him at 12pm from the surf, told him it was offshore with 4ft sets and called him a chicken and started clucking at him like chickens on the speaker phone and OF COURSE he turned up... All we have to do is do the 'chicken clucking thing' to each other and it's like Michael J Fox in 'Back to the Future'! Whenever any of us call each other a chicken we just have to do whatever it is they dare us to do because we just HATE being called chickens hahahaha.

So Frexi paddled out to the line up to join us at 01.30 in the morning! It was literally pumping when we got there... 2-3 ft and completely glassy, 18deg in the water and 16 degs out... I would be so bold to say that it was the best surf I have had this year.. It was really clean with 4ft sets with both rights and lefts peeling.. I even got a little headduck tube on one, which is rare up here.... It got bigger, as we had expected from the prognosis we had been checking throughout the day...

Unfortunately the prognosis was wrong in one aspect..It had said that the swell would hold for a while.. but it didn't!! After about 1½-2hrs the swell just, all of a sudden, stopped.. The waves just stopped coming in..we waited,as you do, but to no avail..the ocean had gone flat... really sad because it was sooo good before hand and getting better..anyway.. will try to get some pictures off Jay and put them in.. Peace from Da Rat.