Some big waves moved in to our area Friday night. Buoys spiked to 30ft and a lot of folks were on edge wondering if the waves were going to come in clean and rideable or big and scary.
It was big and scary.
I met up with Tom in front of Wise. We walked around North Ocean Beach and the Cliff House, gawking at waves there. There were waves breaking so far out ir was unbelievable. We cruised on down to Sloat, Rockaway, and finally Linda Mar waiting for Josh to wrap up his session at Half Moon Bay.
Rockaway was, well, hurling rocks:
There was one lone dude out there. He was holding his own, I didn’t see him get stomped but wow. He was a tiny dot surrounded by big angry waves.
Linda Mar wasn’t as big as projected, but still looked rough. A handful of people were out getting waves.
I stayed nice and dry. Had lovely brunch at the Cliff House instead.
I saw a nutty dude paddle out into surf like this once. Just like you said, he became a little dot scraping to paddle over monster faces. In the end, he finally made it out after 30 minutes of paddling, the he clearly realized he didn’t know how to get back in. Poor dude.
Those pics looks pretty gnarly.