Might walk the three minutes to the coast at lunchtime as the sun is out for a bit and the Dryrobe ****ers will be out in force doing their little sea dips. Oooh we love cold water- grow up.
I'm on a dryrobe ****er spotting facebook group, they turn up all over the place The chart says 6-8ft, 8 sec period with a SSW swell, 34mph SW wind, air temp of 9 deg and low tide at 15:56 for your area btw Just so you know
Yeah I hear you but the trouble with a SEE swell is that it would be coming out of the English channel from France and would only have a short wave period.
It’s hard to put any perspective on this. But I’m standing about 100ft back from that cliff and the spray is probably 30-40ft tall. So windy out there today and grey skies too, so not great for taking pics.
Think if I had to do an extreme sport it would have to be in a wingsuit, something amazing about being able to fly like a bird. Maybe in another life.
Good friend of mine took this earlier. This is about 10 mins from my house. I saw him up at the spot where I was trying to get shots, it was ****ing crazy up there 70mph winds. He's a pro photographer with the right gear, so it’s good to see some quality shots from today rather than my iPhone attempts lol please log in to view this image
Closest I've got to that was doing a Skydive. Did a tandem from 10,000ft for charity about 15 years ago. It was mental, I remember jumping out of the plane, doing a couple of flips and seeing the bottom of the plane disappearing away above. Then when we levelled out, seeing the clouds coming at me and before I knew it we were in them. Such a bizarre experience to feel an actual cloud rushing past your face. I think the whole freefall was only around 40 seconds or so before they deploy the chute and then all of that rushing air stops and it's as mellow as you can imagine, just floating back to the ground. If anybody ever gets a chance to do one, I would 100% recommend it. Bucket list stuff. I was so amped after doing that I was in the 'ready to go pro' zone for a while lol, looking up how much courses cost to get registered as a skydiver.
Yeah trouble is it's all over too quick, which is why I prefer the wingsuit option, as it's supposed to be twice as long has a freefall. Although you would have had a bigger parachute for a tandem, so it might have been the same time in total, not sure.
Yeah that wingsuit stuff looks insane. I've no idea what sort of training you'd need to be competent at that. I mean skydiving obvs. But there's so much more to it than just freefall and then opening the chute. One mistake and you're pizza !
Power cuts down here on account of the storm. It's been on and off all day, but just went off for about an hour. Just been to the shed to get my Jackery, Generator, Gas stove, headtorch, power banks and coffee pot and it's come back on lol
Yeah death rate used to be high in wingsuits I think I read, as it's extreme, but the more people do it now, the more knowledge and wingsuits will adapt. I've seen some crazy shhite in them, stuff where you have to be top of the game to do.
I went through a phase of watching loads of wingsuit videos a few years ago. I saw one being filmed from a bridge, where two guys coming towards it and one of them hit the bridge, it's an awful video as the sound of him hitting it is so loud. It also opened his chute, which then got tangled on the bridge and what was left of him was left dangling over the edge
