There is a back-log of videos waiting to be edited and loaded onto the site, but for now we are enjoying the Scottish Highlands in Thurso.

So far Thurso has been very rainy and very cold – and I absolutely love it! The amount of spots and potential spots within a very small stretch of coast is freakin astonishing! The water is pretty cold, but a good wetsuit is all you need to be comfortable in the water.

The first day we were here we had some small waves in the 2 foot range, but they were some of the best 2 foot waves I’ve seen. Just reeling perfectly along a little reef. The next day the swell picked up a foot or two and we had some really good waves at the same reef. The next day was onshore and extremely windy and wet. But, the wind created some wind swell and today saw some bigger swell hitting the same reef again. The swell so far has been very westerly and doesn’t get into Thurso and the other spots that we have been waiting to score so we have been surfing a reef that picks up westerly swell in bounds. Check it out below…

The forecast for tomorrow is looking mental! 6-8 foot swell coming from a direction that wraps in enough to hit the slabs that we’ve been checking out for the last four days. So by the time you read this I might be slotting into some heavy, flat-bottomed barrels and getting spat out…

Sounds well worth the 13 hour drive from London to me!

For those of you interested in the spot I mentioned in the first Thurso Article - we did find it and it is SUPER heavy!! We got some video footage of it breaking and it’s pretty amazing. I might get the balls to surf it, but hitting the rocks is a given there so it’s a tough call. There were some makeable ones, but wave selection would be the key out there…
I’ll keep you posted on that one…

Later…

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