Badlands in a blanket
Friday, February 27th, 2009 A month and a bit back, Cornwall was blanketed with the first snow fall in over 16 years. Needless to say, ‘the Badlands’ as St Agnes has been duped, brought all the boys out – snowboards and all. Jimmy, an Aggie local, converted the two days of snow into Cornwall’s version [...]
Coldest day of the winter…
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 Beauty morning in Cornwall today. Hard frost everywhere and cold as it has been so far this winter. Made it up to the Aggie beacon for sunrise – the whole of Cornwall looked spectacular with what looks like well groomed, good period groundswell in for both coasts. Clean as you like [...]
Ice on ya wettie…
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 Have to say, I ‘m loving the winter right now. Steve (from Empire boards over the way) and i made it down to the South Coast yesterday afternoon. Unbelievably clear and cold day with a lush 3ft making it into a small right hand reef near Porthleven. Steve and i paddled [...]
Monday’s swell lines
Monday, January 12th, 2009 Took a walk to the cliff at lunch with Debs, Ernie and TP. This is the sight we were met with – a thumping January groundswell and the S wind still keeping it all pretty clean. Lines right to the horizon and some of the offshore reefs nearly breaking. In truth, [...]
Aggie lifeboat day goes XXL
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 We have been trying to get hold of these shots taken on Aggie lifeboat day for sometime. It took place about ten days ago on probably the biggest day of the summer, and Finisterre founder/crewman Tom took the day off to get stuck in. There was a solid 6-8ft making it [...]
‘They call it Stormy Monday…’
So how bad was Monday’s storm? The place took a pounding and was as rough as any of us have seen it – the waves at Aggie were breaking way, way out – easily 15ft+ faces. At dead low tide, there were breaking waves five miles out to sea and when the tide came in, [...]
