No Gigantic swell, But Noosa still Delivers! March 22, 2010 – Tags:

Well it turns out that the swell of the century in QLD was once again a talked up hoax, with some swell forecasting sites calling 20 feet at 14 seconds, it had half of Queensland dusting the cobwebs of the rhino chasers and waxing up for the sessions of a lifetime. 
I was up at the crack of dawn on Saturday hoping to see something special but the open beaches near my house didn’t really get over 6 foot over the entire weekend. Noosa Heads was the pick of the spots and although it was the hardest place on earth to find a car park, the lineup was surprisingly easy to get waves compared to normal, and Friday although not as massive as expected, Noosa was as perfect as I have ever seen it and there was definitely some barrels to remember. 
I saw Dean Brady Pull into a wave deep behind the Boiling Pot at a wave they call Eeno’s and thread through what most would call an impossible sand monster, only to pop out the other end, 50 meters past the rocks to a hooting crowd of longboarders, stand up paddle boarders and the odd goat boater. If you managed to get swept all the way down, you would have noticed the bank joined all the way up through all the points and the pick of the sand bars was probably First point with super perfect 2-3 foot waves pitting and spitting there all weekend for the Noosa festival of surfing. 
So even though it wasn’t the swell of a lifetime i was still happy to have left West Aus and come home for this swell, even though i heard it was bigger, cleaner and alot more uncrowded, because there is still nothing better than having good waves at your home, especially when the Sunshine Coast is  normally quite wave starved.
photos: Andrew Shield