It was a round of the Central Coast Surf Life Saving Clubs boat competition today at Terrigal Beach. I saw the competition being set up when I went down for my coffee at 7.00 am but unfortunately could not get down to see it until it was about to wrap up late morning.
It has again been very hot and very humid. I walked down to the beach with my Leica SL2 fitted with the Lumix Pro f2,8 70-200mm lens coupled to the Lumix 2x converter giving me effectively a f5.6 140-400mm lens. It's a really heavyweight combo. I soon realised that the 2x converter was unnecessary. The 70--200mm lens alone would have been adequate, but standing on a sandy beach in full sun is not a good place to start coupling and uncoupling lenses.
I just hit the beach as the last race was starting so I only manged to grab two shots. I would have liked to have had more time, but it is what it is and I could not have spent any longer standing on the beach in the sun anyway-it was ferocious.
Today the sea was very smooth. When there is medium or big surf the starts of these competitions are more spectacular however I'm pleased with these two shots and I was not stricken with heatstroke so I really cannot complain.
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