Conditions are great most of the time. This is almost even, but you'll have to deal with rocks. Precision is the key if you don't want to break your board or worse…
An excellent right hand reef but you do need to know what you are about. This famous Irish wave can get very big and hollow. It has great camping spots too.
I surfed Easky Left about four foot. It was a really nice powerful wave and I got a few barrely sections there too. Make sure you know how to use the rip coming from the river. My friend spent nearly twenty minutes paddling towards the peak and ended up infront of the pier! Nice wave if you can handle the rip.
When Easky left is big it’s a good spot to practice decent size wave riding, as it’s just a drop and a shoulder. The right is perfect for surfing but is fickle and needs a due west swell and a strong southeast wind to make it tubey.
Referring to english transplants. To all irish surfers, there are a lot of cool english people and english surfers. But not all. It seems there is a little wannabe local crew of "crumpets and tea" trying to make claims as being locals. Well there are two ways of solving it. Physical violance, which as surfers should never be our nature and is a very nasty side to surfing. Or we can just take of deeper surf 100 times better and if they still insist on takeing our waves start blocking them from takeing off. They need to show respect in someon elses home this is true but there is only a minority of english that spoil it for the rest. So wear a smile and be nice wheather they be Irish, English or any other. But if respect isn't giving start blocking these waves. It's your home so be nice and represent the Irish with a smile but don't be fools if your not being respected.
A world class wave on several different swell directions and sizes. One funny aspect is the so called locals who claim it their own yet only moved from England a few years ago. It's not yours its ours!
Overrated. It was fun 10 years ago when there were only a handful of travellers surfed there, but now its a mob and the worst are the transplants. It rarely gets good because it must have the right wind swell and tide or it's closed out slop.
I surfed lovely 4ft offshore lefts here on a 9'6'' in the sunshine one saturday morning this July. There was a small crowd who were all dead friendly and all but one had only been there for a day! Cheers to all the foreigners who brought surfing to this country!
James from Sligo, Damn right about the so called locals, I had a few "run ins" with some of them and I thought British imperialism was at an end. So to all you fun loving affable surfers out there, if any of those "Tan surf nazi's" start giving you grief drive your sandal into his forehead and the rest of us will stand by you.
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