High Tide Surfboards: The road to Noosa

Our journey to the Noosa festival of surfing began with a 10 hour drive across the east of Victoria arriving just shy of Merimbula 2 weeks before the competition was due to start. Over the first five days of our trip good mate BJ and I worked our way up the South Coast of NSW, stopping every time we caught a glimpse of a rideable wave. In this time we scored epic sessions at Narooma, Ulladulla and a day and a half of perfect lefts at Green Island before arriving at Gerringong to meet up with Justin and Jake Bevan and drop off their new boards off before the comp.

After spending the weekend with the Bevan boys, surfing the beach breaks around Shell Harbor, we made our way north to the big smoke for and overnight stop to catch up with Manly longboarder Kieran Plim. The next morning we set out on the northern beaches and dropped in to see local logger and surfing buddy Matt Chojnacki. With good friend Yuta Sezutsu over from Japan for the festival, the boys had a similar trip to Noosa planned. So we organized to meet up in a days time at Crescent Head, setting out once again this time to Newcastle for another overnight stop and a few steel city sliders.

The next day we hooked up Matty and Yuta in Crescent to find perfect 2 to 3ft waves on the point and light offshore winds. After two days surfing, the swell rose and we all decided to make our way up the coast, stopping off at Lennex head for a quick fish session before spending the afternoon logging the pass with local shedder Brett Caller.

Although we lucked in to a large variety of quality waves over our two week trip up the east coast of Australia, nothing would prepare us for the week of surfing that lay ahead on the points of noosa heads.