DAYS WITH THE WAITES

Right so a couple weekends ago I asked my two sponsored body boarding mates & brothers (Robbie & Adam Waites) to search & take some pics.
Well did we?!

Yesterday Monday 28 June 2011 was an early start to proceedings,after a late night of course.7:30am the Waites brothers fetched me in the double cab to try and check out the abandoned,shark-netless Umhlanga.There's always that sense of epic-ness & intense emotion when you know a Great White could be lurking below and wondering if your board is salad.

Missioning to Umhlanga after having to go back to Rob & Adam's place to fetch Rob's equipment he definitely needed,fins - chop!Lines,banks and sizey swell was the order of the day.Change,set up camera's,checks and down to the impounding sound of barrel & bank meeting.

ADAM WAITES

ROBBIE WAITES

A heavy paddle out left two other boarders to admire the view from the beach yet the brothers tackled this problem,took awhile but with a bit of luck & a huge wash eventually landed them at back line and traveling rapidly with the wash.Angles were hard to find with constant washes making it impossible for the boys to keep in one place.
Nevertheless pictures were captured and some hopefully featured in Billy Thiel's mag!