Budget Rent-a-Car...kooks all of 'em!

What happened to just dropping the family off and coming back for your well hidden board? Alone you could surely improvise something.
That board would have been in the car with me, even if sticking out of windows like wings...but I understand the clutch moment and family compromise..

 

best / worst story i have ever read. Emergency things I always travel with near or far that could have saved this story:
1. Churchills
2. Jumbo roll of flesh colored duct tape

 

In case you forget your trunks and have to construct some fleshtone boardies?

 

My buddy went to Barbados for his honeymoon. real experienced surfer, moved here from Hawaii, then to the OBX. he went out at soup bowls alone. His bride was on the beach when his board washed up without him. Seems a sneaker set came in and reamed him. He told me that a sponger was out and gave him a piggy back ride to the beach. He's 5' nothing so it wasn't a big deal. I'm 6'5" so I'da had a long swim in. wouldn't have been the first nor last time for that.

 

Was the reef way offshore like too far to swim? Did you see this reef from the overlook on top of the mountain? If so it was Johnson's reef that supposedly is really fun when the tide is right and the swell is big. Anything but high tide and its too shallow. If you were on the beach (small and narrow) with the main road right behind it you were on trunk bay. I'm pretty sure that Johnson's reef is visible from Trunk Bay off the point of land to the right and also from cinnamon bay to the left. It's far out there though and would be a crazy paddle to get there. The reef at cinnamon breaks off the one side and produces a lumpy kind of weird right. It's not that far out even on the biggest day so I doubt you would have hesitated to go out there.

 

I have been there once but my familly goes all the time, my son has been there 5 times believe it or not. I have been told I have the memory of an elephant and have a photographic memory for people's faces, places, and events. So I can picture every detail of that place as if its right in front of me. When I was there i surfed off the little island and it was kinda fun but there were people surfing it and I sat wide right on the edge of the reef above the coral, kinda crazy looking down and seeing stag horn ready to gobble you up. Johnson's reef was firing at the time and know one was out there. I asked a few guys what the deal was and they filled me in on it. At the top of the hill if you looked down there with binoculars you could see just how shallow it really was. Almost slab like breaking lower than the reef itself and dredging it dry with every second wave. From a distance it looks like perfection. Even when the cay at cinnamon bay stopped breaking (once the swell dropped) that reef was working, again maybe too small and shallow, but it sure did look perfect.