FOUR DAYS IN THURSO, NORTH COAST SCOTLAND
20th-24th March 2009
Nick Moffatt, Rich Potter and myself made the trip up to Thurso for a long weekend hoping to score some legendary North coast surf breaks. We travelled up Friday the night, did some scoping out on Saturday (every blooming beach for 70 miles!), sailed 4m head-logo high Sunday, same again Monday, then surfed Thurso East overhead on Tuesday before heading home.
I'm not going to tell you all the plus points or where to go sail, but I will say that no matter what the wind is doing it's worth a trip up to find out for yourself. Just take lots of warm clothes, a warm wetsuit (or 2 not so warm ones if you're Potter) and lots of spare kit! There's sick windsurf spots in abundance..
Saturday scenery..
Torrisdale
Big slabbage
Serious slabbage!
More slabbage..
Council cuts..
Dunnett head, the most northerly point..
Sunday the point..
Looks small, but if you look closely there's a sail out there..
Had a surf at Sandside 'til dark..
Monday windsurfing at Sandside..
Shallow again!
Rich Potter..
Yes, that is Dunreay in the background!
Timo Mullen..
Timo rocked up from Bournemouth to score these 2 days!
Tuesday surf at Thurso East..
(pics are from when the swell had dropped unfortunately, 2hrs previous was epic!)
North Scotland, March, school day, 6'c and 10 people turn up! Aaarghhh!
Great trip, can't wait to go back.
Pics by Nick Moffatt, Rich Potter and me. We probably missed the best moments as everyone was on it.
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