5pm

Nobody paddles out at 5, nobody. It’s either 4 or 6, OK?

6pm

Oh shit it’s the after work crew. Even more frantic than the lunch crew, they NEED THIS SURF. They drove the whole way changing from 2nd to 3rd gear much too late, at around 4000 rpm’s. RRRrrrrrrrrr! No time to check, engine off, straight into frantic pulling wetsuit on, verging on seam-ripping panic.

Don’t tear it, salaryman!

7pm

Evening sesh crew. Tricky one with the whole dinner thing. Do you eat early and surf uncomfortably full, or hang on? Decision, decisions…

Half hour before sunset

Wise owls, too wise to paddle out at 7pm, know full well that 90% of all the good shit that happens on the late sesh happens in the last half hour. And also knowing that a lot of the 7pm crew have kooked it and are getting out half an hour too early.