Surf: 0.7 ft at 10.0 s from the WSW at 304° but very mixed, lots of wind.
After yesterday’s fun surf, today’s junky waves were a little bit of a let down.
Another challenge was a dude who wasn’t exactly looking before he’d paddle for a wave, take off right on top of me or other people, then blow the wave and shoot his board and yet even more people. Uff. I was tempted to say something. When it’s this junky, there’s no peak and it’s easy to not see where others are sitting on your inside. It’s really important to be aware because no one wants to be that jerk that injures someone on a lousy 2 ft day. I couldn’t quite find the right words so I tried to exercise some patience and paddle to another peak. The problem was, the dude followed. I appreciate all the slack people have cut my ridiculously kooky self over the years, but there’s a fine line between cutting slack and letting someone continue to do something dangerous. I’ve certainly had other people call me out when I was doing something dangerous. Yeah it’s embarrassing, but better than someone getting hurt.
Oh well.
Moving to yet another peak, I was able to get a few waves and forget about the other group.
I had some amazing faceplants on my fish. Ha. I kept slipping my front foot and plowing right into the wave. Got a few longer ones, but MAN it’s hard to connect all the little bits when it’s this junky. Made it around some sections, that’s a plus.
I miss clean waves!