Roke

Typhoon Roke made a direct hit in Fukude/Hamamatsu on Wednesday, winds up to 80mph and 25ft surf.




Flying tree limbs and pieces of metal sheds prevented me from going outside and capturing any peak action, but I filmed these 2 quick clips from the safety of my place. I thought the ol wagon R might fly away at any second...

Roke2 from Bart Templeman on Vimeo.

After things calmed down a bit I checked out the neighborhood...

Mouth of the Tenryu River, seen through the floodgates.

The normally passable beach road in Tenryu. Usually the water line is 100meters to the left, but at some point the storm surge hurled all this junk over the seawall.

It's Friday now, the wind has calmed down and the surf is flat!



But I got some nice evening photos to share in the next blog...

Toyohama Evening

The latest typhoon has passed through and the sun has finally come out again, unfortunately the surf has also left along with the typhoon. Good evening for a walk with my canon g20.

Rusty tetrapod metal hook, shoot with the macro setting.


Tetrapods in the harbor.


Some guy walked through the frame and messed up my sunset shot.

Party time

The boys were back in town for Doc's wedding.
Coors lights + patron + good friends = Good Times!

Typhoon waves

There has been some good surf recently from the typhoons, here are a bunch of random pics from over the past month.

This the coastal road driving towards Shizuoka. There is almost a surfable wave here underneath this bridge with Mt. Fuji in the background.

When it is too big for the beaches in front of Fukude and the winds are out of the east, this protected left point down in Irago turns on.





Around the corner from the left point is the more exposed coastline, a little too big to surf this day.



Same spot here in Omaezaki as the photos in the previous post.

Most of the waves that break on typhooon swells are difficult to find, localized, or both. Gun-san is a local everywhere in Shizuoka and he hooked me up by taking me out to a lesser known rivermouth setup. He and his group of friends have been surfing this area for years and they have it dialed.



The rivermouth we went to had a fun setup, lefts on one side and rights on the other in front of the driftwood locals shack.





Another rivermouth setup, this one was a bit muddier. There was a crew all over it in the morning here but by noon here it was empty.



And back to PK, once the swell backed down a bit. The sand setup has been good here, just mind the tetrapod shorebreak.





Two shots from Unagiya-san at PK.

Sequence from Marcio

Here are few shots from the last typhoon swell that I had emailed to me from Marcio, a photographer out in Omaezaki. There weren't many people out this day, but every once in a while a good set came through with some double up goodness. Typhoon #9 is rolling through this week and the forecast looks good...

DJ U-Chan

Typhoon 6

Typhoon #6 has churned up some gigantic surf here, I took a looooong road trip to find a more protected wave, and wound up stumbling into some rivermouth perfection. This point only turns on when its big and the swell wraps into the Suruga Bay. The view from the lineup while riding this wave is incredible, with Mt. Fuji towering in the background as the wave wraps down the point. However, my camera is not waterproof so I have no photographic proof!
By chance, Nori-san from Cojo Surfboards stopped by on his way to Fuji and snapped a couple cell phone pics.