“You can have a peak to just
you and your mates when it’s
pumping, especially on a weekday
... without the crowds - just
peak after peak, endless fun”
- Jye Gill
S
he’s a freak occurrence, a combination of nature and man
that makes this place so unique - but it hardly constitutes solely
a man-made wave. Before the sand spit’s natural migration
north was halted by the ambitious construction of a permanent
navigational channel, the old Southport Bar was already a
magnificent wave machine, with shifting gullies and scoured
sand banks that often created incredible and isolated waves.
There was a little known but famed lefthander that in the right
conditions turned on a perfect grinding sand bottom point
break that would run for hundreds of metres across the northern
aspect of the bar.