I was game for trying a new point, so I put on a T-shirt and jumped in the car. (I must have looked ridiculous – I was half-wearing a wetsuit and a T-shirt). There was no way I was going to bother taking off my wetsuit and then put it back on in a few minutes. For those of you who have had the fortune / misfortune of wearing a wetsuit will quickly agree with me.
We drove for about 5 minutes to Sagara, an industrial seaport. I had been there before, but I had never surfed there before. I was put off by the rather large, rather official-looking sign in Japanese with “No Surfing” “No Jet skiing” “Danger” and some other things that I couldn’t read. (The sign is quite faded and has some difficult kanjis).
When we arrived, there was a solitary longboarder in the water. However, it didn’t look as menacing as Kashima. The wind was still strong and it was still raining quite heavy. We quickly got in the water and enjoying ourselves.
I am quite lucky about weather. The rain stopped and sun tried to make an appearance. Here are a few pictures that I took at around 10 am. I wanted to take a picture of the sign but it was blocked by a couple of vans.
When I visited this point before, it was completely flat – barely a ripple. Apparently, this point only has waves when there is a typhoon swell. Of course, the locals know this well and when we were leaving, there were about 30 or so surfers and a bodyboarder in the water.
A nice morning at the beach!
