The wind this morning was a strong southerly which helped produce some nice faced waves from the westerly swell. Due to the stormy weather over the last few days, this has sorted out the fickle sand banks of Porthtowan. Down at flat rocks the banks seem to be the best i have seen in ages and the lefts were peeling nicely. There was nobody out at all. Looks like the same windy conditions tomorrow and the swell is picking up slightly.

Last night looked lovely; a nice punchy 3ft wave with a nice shape to it and the wind direction was a gusty SE. However, there were more people in the water than water, so i refused to get in. I dont see the attraction of surfing with loads of people and the mass majority are neither friendly, or have any etiquette. I saved my surfing time for early in the morning when the hoards of people would still be tucked up in bed, or off to work.

The swell had dropped off a bit this morning and so had the SE wind, but it was still a bit gusty. The waves were fun and small, there were only 6 people in, and the surfboard of choice was a longboard. It felt like a dying swell, but looking at the buoys there seems to be a 6ft SW swell coming in later tonight and increasing for Saturday. The winds are going to increase which might blow the SW swell to decrease the wave size. We will wait and see.

The water this morning was noticably colder on the feet, but still happy in a 3/2mm wetsuit, so no need to slip into a winter wetsuit just yet. The tide was dropping back this morning and on the odd set some 4ft waves would come pumping in. However, the swell and waves did seem to be holding back power and punch, and the banks seems to have been messed up from the big swells, but there was still good clean fun.

So far its been a couple of days of surf worth reporting on. July and August have been the worst months for surf i can remember. However, the September swells have now hit and so has the sunny weather! I think theres a pattern in Cornish summer weather, May, June and September are great for sun and surf. Then we have July and August which are utter rubbish, this pattern has happened for the lat 3 years now.

Yesterdays surf was awesome early in the morning, but as the day went on there wasnt any banks to hold the waves. The waves were too punchy and closed out alot. Today has seen the southernly winds increase in speed and this seems to have held the waves back a little to for some storming right handers.