South wind sucks!

T.S. Maria and her associated weather seems to have passed us, its a beautiful morning out in Rodney Bay today.
We got some good beach break surf on saturday at a very remote beach on the east coast, totally glassy and big solid east swell doing its thing... pretty sweet vibe at 6 in the morning,  4 wheel driving off road for 1/2hr  through the jungle (stopping off only to collect guava and avocados) to arrive on a totally deserted beach with the only sound the roar of spitting barrels, gotta love the unspoilt Southern Caribbean! ... Well, some people are trying to spoil it, local builders down the beach this morning mining sand!! check the "lake" in one of the pics on the beachfront, a result of people removing the beaches bit by bit for personal gain, i sure wouldnt want my house built with beach sand (unwashed) imagine how little time your reinforcing has being packing in salty sand concrete!!

Got a few pics from over the weekend, forgot my board attachment unfortunately for the morning surf sesh and the light wasnt to good either.

We could see waves barreling and spitting from wayy up here! ... I think its solid today

Sand mining consequences .... where's the beach ??

Time to paddle out

freaky trees 

Unfortunately by the afternoon the SSE wind had picked up and ruined it all for us, we still had sweet afternoon limin' on the east coast with a few rum and cokes and BBQ chicken.
Looks like some wind forecast for later on this, hopefully we can finally get out on the kites again!

Here comes T.S. Maria ...

TROPICAL STORM MARIA @ CROWNWEATHER.COM
The atlantic seems to be a mass of cloud right now, a large wave is over the northern leewards and T.S. Maria not far behind and moving west @ 20 KNOTS!!! at the moment, with a turn to the WNW later that is predicted to put her over barbuda, hope for the sake of barbuda it doesnt strengthen any more.
Looks like we will get some more sick waves and a bit of rain from tomorrow into saturday, lookin like another nice swell with cranking southerly to south easterly offshores on saturday morning ..... WAHOOO!

SWELL WIND FORECAST @ WINDGURU

Good to see beth from KITESURFING ST LUCIA back on the island after being away in Europe and UK training for her olympic campaign in 2012. One day back and she was already out on the laser.

It seems she has also brought the wind, my trusty KISS wind generator has been cranking away since last night with around 15 knots, i wint be running the engine today!

Stay tuned for monday .... should have some more pics of our latest wave session, who knows ... might even get a kite out in the waves somewhere with 18knt southerlies.

BEN

Victoria getting ready for T.S. Maria

Up the mizzen with GOPRO camera

Katia visits ... Maria not far away!

As predicted we got some nice waves here in the south caribbean from hurricane KATIA, although it seems the best of the swell passed friday night we still got some solid glassy waves friday, saturday and sunday. once again i had GOPRO out!! So nice to share perfect waves with a few of ya mates!

Jonny cranks off the bottom

into a roundhouse

We are now looking into the atlantic and TS MARIA is looming on the horizon, gathering her strength to send us some more sick waves for the weekend. check the STORMPULSE LINK to keep up to date on her movements. Stay tuned for more ....