11.15am: JC: Finally make it back to the van after a solid forty five minute scary mission clamouring over slippery boulders with all my camera gear. At one point I was considering wading through chest high water with my big lens above my head. Somehow I had managed to leap from boulder to boulder without slipping into the crashing waves. A few minutes later and I would have been cut off at the base of the cliffs with no place to shelter. God knows what would have happened in that situation. Maybe I could have scurried up the cliff and waited for the next low tide? There again, what am I moaning about? Timo was the one out there sailing on his own in extremely perilous conditions.
You have to respect the ocean on days like this and despite not a single hostile surfer to be seen, the place had its own natural defences to protect its hidden magic! One of the reasons this article is labelled Coast Confidential is because this is certainly no place for your everyday punter and we definitely would not recommend it for recreational sailing. It’s dangerous, guarded by protective locals and a fickle spot that only works in exactly the right conditions.
11.30am: JC: Van heater on as we both try and shake off the frostbite. We are both in a state of mixed emotion after this traumatic adventure. On one hand we had managed to score an hour or so of pretty dramatic wave sailing but with hindsight of the tide rushing in we had already missed the best of it before we even arrived. With the wonders of this amazing reef break now hidden beneath the turbulent waters of the North Sea, there were still plenty of hours in the day to check out some more spots on this bountiful stretch of coast.
1.30pm: JC: Two more hours driving in the wrong direction from home and we were back on it again, scoring a perfect logo high cross offshore beach break, again without seeing another windsurfer for the whole session. For that adventure you will have to wait for the next installment of Coast so be sure to fill in that subscription or get down to your newsagents and order up your copy!