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For those of you....
that can walk from your house to the surf.
How awesome is it?
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Local at nowhere, eternal blow in.
Pretty good. Unfortunately the banks at Houghton Bay are garbage at the moment.
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used to when i lived in ohope, went upstairs and saw how big the waves were from the lines. so checking it was easy. Now I live 10 min bike ride away or two minute car trip. can hear waves at night, so just listen before I go to sleep and get an accurate account of how big it is.
its pretty dam awesome but the salt can be a annoying.
Beyond awesome
with the summer sea breezes the local is the only good wave 
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Do you live at BH Beemer?
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Local at nowhere, eternal blow in.
One day, one day...
Awesome to see the ocean calm down before your eyes, instead of the trees around the house... allows for the "RIGHT NOW" factor that is so important in surfing.
*edited 28 Dec 2012 17:06
just as awesome, when its real cold you can drive and be back in the shower 90 seconds after exiting the water 
but yeah running down the road with ya boar dunder arm wettie half down on a friday evening past Alf , Indy and Ruby is cool too
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Breakfast lunch dinner on the seawall, staying in bed because it sounds flat or onshore. Waking up early because it's so loud.
All of those things are overrated. Nothing beats the drive with anticipation, frothing about the 4ft, turning up to dribbles.
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I used to do that when I lived in Westport. I must addmit I miss being able to do it. The walk to the beach thing.
*edited 28 Dec 2012 19:50
This was from my kitchen a couple years back - i don't have the same view now, but its a quick walk down the street.
The best thing about living next to the surf is you know it inside out - you know the tides, how every kind of bank is working and you never miss a good session. Unless you fu(k yourself up and can't surf for a few months, in which case living by the sea is cun-ting torture.
One of the best luxuries in life! Having a view of the ocean is like having a Picasso painting that changes every hour.
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it's very awesome. Under 10 mins for me. way less if its pumping
*edited 29 Dec 2012 06:44
were up a little valley so were sheltered from the harshness of the sea, i can see the sea surface from my bedroom but its a 3minute walk till i can see the shoreline so i get that anticipation factor also and as i walk down the road i see more and more of the sea i see.
My View right and left from a 200metre walk down the road, unfortunately it doesnt look like this everyday!!
but id be spoiled if it did.
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Originally posted by: Jtah
Do you live at BH Beemer?
5 min walk
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. Lao Tzu
hey nells any swell action from that troppy?
what one? evan>?? we got two pulses from it,,, 4ft on friday the 20th and then another pulse 3-4ft on wednesdayarvo/thursday morning..
nothing off this new one for a couple days yet but theres a couple foot windslop developing as i type
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yeah evan o mighty, sweet dude.
Originally posted by: Nell-E
what one? evan>?? we got two pulses from it,,, 4ft on friday the 20th and then another pulse 3-4ft on wednesdayarvo/thursday morning..
nothing off this new one for a couple days yet but theres a couple foot windslop developing as i type
How high up the froth scale were you with that cyclone?
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I'd love to live next to the beach but only if I didn't have to drive a hefty distance to work. That to me would more than ruin the awesomeness of living at the beach.
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Originally posted by: Jtah
that can walk from your house to the surf.
How awesome is it?
I'll let you know.
The view from the master bedroom at the new Oldscool Beach Shack.
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Did you miss my holiday house swap thread a couple of months ago oldschool?
Your wife would just love the sound of the cows in the morning outside the tent at my block of dirt... ill be up next week so get the place looking good...
As luck would have it we're off to Aussie on Friday.
I'll leave the key under the mat.
No power or water yet though and so long as you don't mind the gibby's dropping plaster all over everything...?
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not doing the Gib yourself ?
looks like a nice little crib
the Mt ?
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Gibby's Gibby b@stards dropping shid all ova the place . They just don't give a shid .
Except for the walls .. .
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Originally posted by: trailertrash
not doing the Gib yourself ?
Nah, my gib stopping sucks big time. Lucky if I can fill a nail hole evenly.
Originally posted by: trailertrash
looks like a nice little crib
the Mt ?
Thanks! I'm pretty happy with the way it's turning out.
Yep, Mt.
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