Great 3 hours (12:30-3:30pm) at Iona Beach with Adam, Lucas and Chuck!
Enjoyed the Trident Warehouse Social with Adrien (aka Ed Snowden), Ezzylover, Carol, Brian, LeopardSkin, Rob F, Joe Blow, Francis and Lucas.
Later Lucas and I met at Spanish Banks at 11:30am. Since we arrived too early we decided to check out Iona Beach and found Adam over-powered on 15m. Lucas took his 12m+TT and I took my 9m+surfboard as Adam downsized to 10m+TT. Started with full de-power in W 25+ at 12:30pm then gradually dropped down to W 20 by 3:30pm. Chuck joined us on the last hour on 9m+TT.
Found some small knee high waves 30 feet apart near the jetty (good for a few hits) but mostly flat. Felt totally safe under warm sunny sky and waist deep water so continued to boost comfortably the entire session.
First time at Iona Beach so I'll give it 3.5 out of 5 stars. Totally safe and shallow with a long shoreline perfect for beginners. Very civilized heated change rooms with outdoor showers. Only downsides are long walk to water and small waves. Also (like Yogi Bear) need to dodge the park rangers who don't want windsurfers or kitesurfers there.
Totally wiped out after 3 hours of boosting ... but smiling with a teletubbie tan.
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