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Surf Spot Characteristics |
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Surf Quality |
| | wave quality | Sloppy |
| | experience | all surfers |
| | surf frequency | Don't know |
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Wave |
| type | beach-break |
| | direction | right and left |
| | bottom | sandy |
| | power | - hollow
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| | normal length | short (<50m) |
| | good day | short (<50m) |
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Tide, Swell and Wind |
| | swell direction | - West
- SouthWest
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| | wind direction | - West
- SouthWest
- South
- SouthEast
- East
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| | swell size | starts working at 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft and holds up to 2m+ / 6ft+ |
| | tide position | all tides |
| | tide movement | rising and falling tides |
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Author: Anonymous
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Towan Access |
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In Newquay follow the signs to the Harbour. |
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distance | in the city |
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walk | instant access (<5 mn) |
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easy to find? | easy to find |
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special access | Don't know |
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More Details on Surfing |
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week crowd |
crowded |
| week-end crowd |
ultra crowded |
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dangers | - rips / undertow
- rocks
- localism
- pollution
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Additional Surfing Infos |
| | Park your car wherever you can find space. The break is right in the town.
Towan needs a huge swell to wrap around the headland, and is usually most consistent in winter. The waves are biggest around low tide and smallest at high tide.
At low tide the beach joins up with Great Western, Tolcarne and Lusty Glaze. The waves are bigger the further north you go. The only problem is that it is the longest closeout in the world. Most waves close out at low tide all the way from Towan to Lusty Glaze, with only the occasional peeler. It is always mega crowded though. If it is big enough there will be a decent left behind the harbour.
Mid tide is best giving peeling lefts and rights and the occasional closeout. There is a good left off the harbour wall which gets very crowded with locals.
High tide is usually smallest and suffers from back wash off the breakwall and side wash from the harbour and cliffs.
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Atmosphere |
Towan is nearly always mega crowded. Most Newquay groms learn to surf here and if the swell is huge with a westerly wind this can be the only place on the North coast that receives any shelter.
The atmosphere in the water can be bad as agro Newquay "locals" think they have the right to snake and drop-in on anyone. |
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It does occasionally get very good when the sandbanks are right. Most of the time though, it is a horrendous, crowded closeout.
Unless it is big try Great Western or Tolcarne at mid-tide. |
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Geo-localization |
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| Datum | WGS84 [ Help ] |
| GPS Lat. | 50° 24.95655' N |
| GPS Long. | 5° 5.08432' W |
| Precision | Approximate |
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Towan, UK
By MStubber, 2007-12-30 02:00:00
New Year Surf
A surprisinmgly fun session, although pretty packed. Towan can be good in the winter when the other beaches are too big/messy or if you dont fancy a long paddle out!
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comment by Anonymous, 2007-10-15 21:22:45