MISSION TWO
After hitting Daymer at high tide, which was definitely the wrong call, I was determined to head back to score this place without such chaos on the water. The lesson had been learned, outgoing tide on an 8m swell with force eight plus southwest winds was a no go! With the wild winter continuing to deliver these absurd storms, it did not take long until the next opportunity came my way, February the 1stto be precise. Another sub 950 low, over 8m swell predicted and storm force winds but crucially this time it would be low tide coming in. The return to Daymer did not quite have the same level of takers as the first mission for some strange reason. Maybe the others had already learned their lesson. Despite being one of the most user friendly beaches in Cornwall in normal conditions, perhaps when its off the Richter scale this place gets too hot to handle. This time round Muzza and Adam Lewis were the only crew available with the desire to chase down another storm surge at Daymer.
So another freezing winters day beckoned. I had to take the train down the night before and stay in Adam Lewis’s family home in Taunton. We were right in the middle of that whole nasty spell of floods and storm damage and one of my main hopes was simply not to get stuck in all the travel chaos. En route stories of disruption were all the news on the radio but somehow we made it through the winding lanes to Daymer without any major hitches. On arrival, we turned up pretty much bang on low tide with a strong cross off shore wind blowing across the channel. It kind of looked like game on but Adam reckoned we should hang on a bit for the tide to push over the sweet spot where it would hit the Doom Bar.