Month: May 2014

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Desperado Bo

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Surf: 4.6 ft at 7.7 s from the NW at 304°. High tide. Light to med NW winds.

Unexpected Saturday detour north. I packed a bag full of beach-hangout supplies fully expecting little to no surf. To my surprise, there was a small desperado wave just nice enough to merit checking it out.

I had my hull with me (I can’t fit my log in the Westie) so it took a few waves for me to remember how to surf it. OnceI got up and running, I founds some actual wave type things! Yessss. What a workout hunting down little scraps on a little scrappy board.

There was an RC surfer out, too. I’ve never seen one in real life, but it look like it’s owner was having a blast.

Left 75° and sunny Bo to head back to the insanely foggy city. Wow. We drove over Mt Tam, then back down to Hawk Hill and it was almost zero visibility. We had white fog, blue fog, orange fog (that was confusing), rain, and wind on the way back. Fun fun.

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Santa Cruz

2014-SCHK-05-20a

2014-SCHK-05-20b

Surf: 5.9 ft at 10.0 s from the WNW at 285°. Low tide.

Still sore. The waves were a little bigger than I’d thought, so I stayed out of the pack. It was still a good spot. About half the sets had a wave or two that swung wide and I got some real fun ones. Not as much walking. The waves were really zippy and I went more for swoosh than for heading up to the nose.

The tide was so low. I got hooked up in the kelp a few times. Sploosh!

Afterward, hung around and poked at the tidepools. Lots of little hermit crabs.

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Warm Ocean Beach

2014-OBP-05-14

Surf: 3.6 ft at 10.0 s from the W at 261°.

Went back out again. This time paddling was easier, but turning still hurt. The waves were bigger, but thankfully still pretty gentle. I was treating my neck as gingerly as possible. I did get some fun ones. The first bottom turn was hard as I could look right, but I got some fun drops.

Already 70° by 7am. Gonna be a hot one today.

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Small Ocean Beach

2014-OBP-05-13

Surf: 3.3 ft at 6.7 s from the WNW at 296°.

Still a bit busted but I figured small surf might be okay. I got a few waves. Keeping up with the current was pretty tough. It hurts pretty good to look up when I paddle so I went with the current, not so bad.

My neck was hurting like crazy after. Ow ow. I want to keep active. I feel like it’ll just get worse laying in bed. It’s a very thin line between being active to help, and making it worse. Hopefully this didn’t make it worse!

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Swim

2014-LM-05-07

Surf: 6.6 ft at 9.1 s from the NW at 307°. Windy.

We had some folks visiting from England this week. They really wanted to surf, but the wind was not cooperating. I put my neck out last weekend and was hoping a light swim and a little bit of bodysurfing might do me good.

It was a little bit of a help. Getting the wetsuit on and off hurt like crazy, but swimming itself wasn’t bad. Not sure how much surfing I’ll be able to do in the short term. Hoping to get in a swim or two.

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Fish

2014-OBK-05-01a

2014-OBK-05-01b

Surf: 3.9 ft at 12.1 s from the W at 275°

Smaller today. I took the fish out hoping at the least I’d get some exercise. Wow, I barely remember how to surf that one. I got a couple waves. None of them steady. But hey, lovely sunrise.