“Ayampe is a closed out beach break not worth going to unless your a kook..I have never seen it clean..it's no Blacks Beach or Ocean Beach-sf...I would not spend any time in this area because wave sucks..it's consistently closed out..surf Monpiche for a real wave..”

Wil stringer de UNITED STATES - 18 Feb 2012

“My first wave @ surf side and the jetty was in 1964. Blaker boards of Houston told us about it. It has 3 sandbar breaks. Since the rivers of Texas carry soil, it is usually brown water. Averages are misleading and there were weekends of 2-4 foot. Sometimes storm energy created green water and glassy conditions.

We all had long boards, with guys like Bingo, George Glass, Don Green, Jeff Hutton, Randy Tamlyn, Jake DeBoe, mark Wheeler, Steve Smith logging weekend miles to enjoy the salt, sand, and suds.

We paddled across this freeport channel to surf the south side, mush to the consternation of the dutiful Coast Guard.

Now, the jetty is concrete topped and you walk out past the breaks and jump off. The addition of restrooms, parking and shower has cleaned up the area.

For short boarders it is ok. Long boards can be rented at Bingo's shop. He has a chapel with the walls covered in old boards.

It's clean, relaxing and close. Come visit!”

Marty Jamieson de UNITED STATES - 18 Feb 2012

“For most of the 1980's and 1990's I had the privilege of surfing this world class surf beach. I have heard it said and read the same comment on the internet- "Waitpinga, the beach that never goes flat." This is mostly true as you might get unsurfable small days with offshores, about once every 3 years.

The beach itself is a fairly straight looking embayment between Newland Head at the eastern end and Waitpinga/Parsons Point to the west end. It is approx 3.2 km long.

The surf at this beach is breaking on top of regularly moving sand banks and is both hollow and walling. The surf here is most ridden between 1.5 m and 3.5 m. The surf steps up out of deeper water in a peaky dumping section before backing off into a wall as it passes into the rip channels.

My favorite time of year is winter because often there is a big SW storm blowing followed by an offshore wind overnight, which is developing a head of the next SW wind change. What does this mean? It means big lumpy looking swell on new sandbanks at Waitpinga with offshores. Often I would paddle out and surf all day alone picking off 4 to 6 meter lumps with barrels comparable to pipeline in Hawaii. This demonstrates Waitpinga's other potential as a real adrenalin junkies fixer upper. The offshores during winter can be intermittent but the other side of the coin is that I have seen offshores for 2 weeks at a time and that happens often in winter.

A 6'8 to 7'2 is good for this bigger winter stuff. best offshores N, and NE, but will accept NW winds better nearer to Waitpinga /Parsons Point.”

Steeve Whitehead de AUSTRALIA - 18 Feb 2012