Only one degree Celsius at The Cottage this morning! Plans for a day in the surf were looking questionable. Decided to start slow with a leisurely and sizeable cooked breakfast. By 11am temps had risen to 2.4 and the choice of Anglesey surf was made. Plan B was to ride a trail to Malltraeth, but having driven onto the island and found that the cycle track was under about a meter of water from the recent floods, we decided that the surf option was a good one. Until it came to climbing into the back of the van to get changed!
The sky was blue at least and once in our wetsuits, we felt warm enough to get out of the van and give it a go!
With waves at the beach and snow on the distant mountains, it made for a pretty magical experience. Compared to the air, the temperature of the water was bearable. We had on wetsuit gloves, balaclava, boots and extra thick rash vests, so once the shock of the first wave was over I was warm enough to enjoy the surf as well as just survive. We started off with some good rides, but the sets were unpredictable and would sometimes kick up steeply. You had to work hard and be careful!
We got out while we still had use of our hands. My face was a bit red, but otherwise, I was fine. Especially after warming up with toast and coffee at our favourite coffee shop.
We managed to make a real holiday of the day, by spending a bit of time researching and looking at touring bikes at the biggest shop around here, did a bit of early Christmas shopping, had food in a nice bar that we chanced upon and then got an invite to a gig below a wine bar nearby, where we caught up with some old friends, met new ones and even had a dance to these great rockers! A holiday a home! Brill.
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