ANOTHER good week of waves here on the North coast with sun and fun thrown in for good measure.

The UK Pro surf tour rocked up in Croyde for the 2010 Saltrock open at the weekend. Competitors were met with small dribbly conditions on Saturday and organisers sent in the young guns.

Competition was fierce across the board, with North Devon riders putting in strong performances.

The Under-16 girls' final was packed with home grown talent with three of the four riders hailing from our shores. Woolacombe's Lucy Campbell surfed well to take second in the challenging mush with Massie Lawton third and Laura Crane fourth.

In the Under-12s Will Bailey made the final, coming third.

In the Pro Junior it was the Croyde duo of Lyndon Wake and Alex Baker who pushed hard, both making the semis.

The women's competition saw some great surfing, despite the conditions. New Gul signing Flora Lawton rode well making the quarters, while Andrea Lawrence surfed out of her skin, pushing hard and almost making the semis and giving the favourites a bit of scare.

But it was the actions of Croyde's Karma Worthington that made the biggest impression. Surfing well, she breezed into the semis where she scored well and secured a place in the finals.

However, when she checked back at the judges' tent she noticed that she'd been scored for one of Celine Gehret's waves.

In an inspirational show of sportsmanship she flagged up the mistake meaning Celine moved into second by 0.2, knocking Karma out of the contest.

"I saw they'd scored me for Celine's wave and knew I couldn't win like that," she said.

"If the situation was reserved I'd hope someone would do the same."

The swell chunked up on Sunday with heavy closey sets and the Open was on. Again local riders pushed hard showing the well of talent on tap. Round one saw a number of the crew progress to round two with Scott Rannochan, Zak Lawton, Stuart Campbell, Lyndon Wake and Alex Baker all surfing well.

Croyde's Alex Baker showed his class with sharp snappy turns snagging long lefts all the way to the beach that saw him finish fifth against top flight competition.

"I'm really pleased, I'd like to have done better but it's a good result for me against such good riders," said Alex

The lowtide final saw a scrap with Russell Winter winning, Sam Lamiroy second and Angelo Bonomelli third.

"It was a great event with really strong performances from the North Devon surfers," said series head judge Ester Spears.

Meanwhile, round the corner at Saunton, the Paddle4Relief team held their annual fundraising paddle event.

This year saw the introduction of a competitive race with a small band of hardy surfers keen to take on the challenge of hauling themselves from Saunton and Croyde and back.

Hotdogger Greg Norman blasted the opposition pulling away from the pack and opening up an unassailable lead by the halfway point.

Greg had needed a little persuasion to enter as he had just come out the water from surfing and was without a big longboard fit for racing!

"I'm so stoked to win, it was just great to be involved in such a worthwhile cause," said Greg, still visibly surprised and shocked with his first prize of a week's surf holiday in Hossegore courtesy of Errant Surf.

Chris Barraclough and Chris Dyer came in second and third respectively, followed by Welsh entry Tim Aylett in fourth.

The social paddle in the afternoon saw nearly 30 entrants tootle over to Croyde where they formed a circle of remembrance before heading back.

"It was a fantastic day of raising money for projects in Sri Lanka and in donating money to the Haitian earthquake victims," said P4R founder Tim Tanton.

"Thanks to all the volunteers, paddlers and friends who made this such an amazing day and helped us raise over £2500 on the day."

For more info check out the website www.paddle4relief.co.uk