Zosia's Xmas (Surf) Break Silliness

By Zosia Kilpatrick, Senior Copywriter

For Beginners – Intermediates

Ingredients

A Surfboard > 7”
(Foamy or fibre glass)

Short Wetsuit – Perth / North Breaks 

Long 3-4mm Wetsuit – Down South Breaks

Towel Poncho (vital)

Zinc (MooGoo, Surf Mud or equivalent)

Use the app ‘Windfinder’ to check conditions.
Simply search the location below and check swell at the time you’re planning to go. Wind wise, ideally you want a light easterly blowing, but any wind will do because you’re a beginner who just froths on all kinds of rides, even the washing machine kind. Yeow! 

Perth Method

  • 0-1m swell - Head to Trigg Point. 

  • 1m + Swell - Head to ‘Mettams’, Mettams Pool, ‘Toms’ (Just a bit further north from Mettams) ‘Avalon’ (Mandurah), Secret Harbour Mainbreak (Secret Harbour), or ‘The Spot’ (Yanchep). 

Margies Method

  • 0-1m swell - Head to Smiths (Smiths Beach Reef Break), Yallingup Mainbreak (Yallingup Main Beach) or Grunters (Prevally). 

  • 2.5+m swell - Head to Huzzas (Gracetown) you will absolutely froth.

If you’re interested in giving surfing a go, but would like some help…

WA Surf School have some great local instructors who will take you out in Perth.

Alternatively, Crystal from Yallingup Surf School will sort you out if you’re down south. Ask Crystal if Matty B is available, he’s a very nurturing coach who also wrote a hit rap song in the 90s called ‘Fridays’.