Margaret River

Surf Guide

A couple of lefts here during a solid six to eight-foot swell will be burnished on your brain for decades. Paddling with the pack towards an incoming set and realizing that you are best-positioned to spin and take off is one of the most amazing feelings you will ever have as a surfer. The drop looks heavy and the wall looks long, but cast your doubts aside and go. At this size, the wave gives you an extra moment or two before it pitches, by which time you will be at the bottom, lining up one of the smoothest, fastest turns you will ever do along a solid face, even when it's onshore. If you're lucky, you'll follow this with a pit through the inside section. As for the righthander, one look at it from the car park will tell you all you need to known: don't ride too close to the dry reef on the inside. If there's a set behind when you pull out, you're in trouble. Ending a session here is fun, too. Keep cutting back into the whitewater, and you can ride along the edge of the reef for a couple of hundred meters, doing the little hotdog turns the waves outside wouldn't let you. br> LOCAL RESOURCES: Southwest Australia Surfrider | Margaret River Boardriders | Margaret River Surf Lifesaving Club