EARLY BIRDS
You have to pay a hefty £5 for parking at Kimmeridge and the attendant had obviously heard that the surf was likely to be up and was on guard in her checkpoint on the hill at 07:30 ready to cash in on the early birds! Looking down across the bay at first light for our initial target reconnaissance, we could see the ‘Bench’ was breaking, but it was hard to tell how big or clean it was. The bay itself looked kind of windy, but there were definitely some glassy patches, which would be tough work for the boys to make it upwind to where the action would hopefully take place on the water. With high tide limiting access to the ‘Bench’ along the shoreline, my only option was to hike through the fields and shoot the wave from the top of the cliffs. I was hoping the military had left the access gates unlocked so I could make it round to my own personal shooting range! The army were off duty this morning, but after yesterday’s debacle I was determined to make sure my armoury of ‘Canons’ would be unleashing hell on the water and I would be taking no prisoners!