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Friday Morning: C Street

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Surf: 2.6 ft at 16.7 s at 179°. Low tide and incoming. Glassy.

Oh man, this morning was SO FUN. Derek was already waiting for us. The size was up a little but things were still looking fun and clean. This is the kind of summer surf I’ve been wanting all spring: super smooth, grey, nice shape, long rides. It was a blast.

Derek brought his gopro and got a few shots of us out in the water. All of us got some great rides and again, people were really friendly and stoked. I say people getting awesome rides up and down the beach.

What a great way to start our trip. I can’t wait to come back.

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Thursday Evening: C Street

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Surf: 2.3 ft at 16.7 s from the S at 184°. Breezy.

After a nap back at the campsite, we headed back to C street where the wind was up again. With the wind up, I’ve been wearing my hood to keep my ears dry. I look like a dork, but better than making my surfer’s ear worse.

People at C street were really friendly. No weird looks paddling out all bundled up and everyone was cheering each other on. I think part of it has to do with all the people standing on the shore grumbling about how they thought it’d be better rather than paddline out, but the rest was genuine stoke.

I got a couple bigger waves and a guy was clapping and cheering. I was howling for a couple kids on shortboards who were killing it. Oh man it was fun. I almost don’t want to keep on driving south.

Hit up Lure for dinner and demolished another large delicious meal. We haven’t bought provisions yet so we’re hitting up some great restaurants until we hit the final camping spot. So far this trip’s had good waves, good camping, good food, and good company. Super stoked.

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Thursday Morning: C Street

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Surf: 2.0 ft at 18.2 s from the S at 186°. Low tide and incoming. Glassy.

I was slow to get moving this morning, but tried my best to rally as we were meeting Derek at C Street at 6:30.

Pulling up, the surf looked so fun. Super smooth and much better shape from the evening before. Oh man it was nice. Sure, some waves took some paddling to chance down, but overall it was a perfect june gloomy surfy morning.

It was great to catch up with Derek. We got a couple fun party waves in plus plenty of nice ones for both him and Chris.

After Derek headed off to work, we hit up Pete’s Breakfast House. I wolfed down a waffle, potatoes, eggs, and sausage like it was nothing. What a solid post-surf “Yes I’m going to eat all of this so double the bacon” spot.

We hit up County Line after. That place was big. The swell was cutting in just right that it was well overhead and just slamming shut on the inside. Between the whomp and the food coma, I decided to just watch. People were tearing it up out there. Yew.

I bet it’s already huge down in San O and only getting bigger. 😮

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Wednesday Evening: C Street

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Surf: 2.0 ft at 20.0 s from the S at 182°. High tide. Windy.

We packed up the van this morning and headed south.The new van handles pretty well and was a snap to load up. We made pretty good time, hitting Paso Robles for a delicious lunch and C Street for a sunset surf.

The wind was on it when we rolled up, but it was nice to get in and get wet after all that heat coming down the 101. While a little rough aroudn the edges, the surf was pretty fun! There was enough shape to keep us paddling back out and enough close outs to keep us on our toes.

Hit up a Himalayan place for dinner and made it to the campsite just in time to set up as the sun was going down. It wouldn’t be a surfcamp trip if we didn’t set up at least one campsite in the dark! Luckily the van was a breeze to convert to sleeping mode. Ther first night wasn’t without it’s tossing and turning, but it was really comfortable in there. Chris did a fantastic job outfitting this thing. So stoked to finally be on our trip!
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Surf: 1.0 ft at 18.2 s from the S.

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It’s surf luau time!

CG and I loaded up another Lost Campers’ van and headed south. This van’s name is Gilly. (Lost Campers names the vans, not us!) With the oil spill, there were very few places in the Santa Barbara-Ventura area to camp. Luckily, a friend of Chris’s offered up his driveway in Goleta. I’m still worked on a drawing or painting to thank them for letting us stay. It was a HUGE help and we got to hit up some Ventura surf spots on the way down.

The surf forecast for the week has been hard to read. Surfline said flat, but we found a small, long-period swell in the water that was certainly rideable and actually pretty fun.

Most of the waves were small, but long. Somehow I managed to pick off the larger waves for some really great rides. Since it wasn’t very consistent, I was totally shocked that these waves rolled my way. Yeeehew.