I must admit that at the start of the last half of 2015, I was fairly optimistic about the rest of the year.
Sure… the first half of the year hadn’t produced epic surf, and the usually reliable April – May period was hardly memorable. But there were still a number of good days on the Fleurieu and Yorke Peninsulas. And thanks to the start of a super-strong El Nino event, the water stayed a bit warmer a bit later in Autumn. Then there was the history of favourable surf in El Nino years – 2009 and 2006 more recently, but also looking back to the classic year of 1988 / 89.
Late August didn’t deliver as it had in 2012 and 2013, and by the end of September as things began to warm up, doubts had started to solidify.