New to va beach

[enjoytheride]

What's up everyone, I just moved up here from Wilmington.and The crowds at Va beach are insane, is it any better at Sandbridge?

oh yeah, your water is COLD! when do you guys hit 70 degrees here?

[Swellinfo]

70 - August.

[schweez]

virginia is rediculously cold. wrightsville beach was 64 degrees today, i even saw people in boardshorts

[billabongmoney]

What's up everyone, I just moved up here from Wilmington.and The crowds at Va beach are insane, is it any better at Sandbridge?

oh yeah, your water is COLD! when do you guys hit 70 degrees here?

dude you have no idea if you think its crowded right now wait till june it only gets better , plus dont complain about cold water it keeps the turons out the water

[enjoytheride]

yeah you're right about the water temp and the tourist. I was at TI this past weekend in Nc and was loving the 65 degree water with 80 degree air temp, then back up here with 50 degree water, guess i'll get used to it:cool:

[jrobe057]

Go to either Croatan or the North End(40 street and above). Sandbridge gets very bad too; especially when the water warms up and the kids are out of school, the tourists are in town, and all the "I only surf when the water is warm" people are out. VB usually sucks in the summer anyway unless we get a strong northeast wind or hurricane.

[ECboarder]

Go to either Croatan or the North End(40 street and above). Sandbridge gets very bad too; especially when the water warms up and the kids are out of school, the tourists are in town, and all the "I only surf when the water is warm" people are out. VB usually sucks in the summer anyway unless we get a strong northeast wind or hurricane.

your right about the crowds in the summer but sandbridge is usually not to bad compared to croatan or 1st street especially! sandbridge doesnot usually have the verbal crowd like 1st street

[jrobe057]

your right about the crowds in the summer but sandbridge is usually not to bad compared to croatan or 1st street especially! sandbridge doesnot usually have the verbal crowd like 1st street

I know I was wrong about Sandbridge. I wanted to keep it a "secret." It never has a "verbal" crowd as you said Venice Beach, cough, I mean 1st street has. I save 1st street for 5-6 ft and 30 degrees usually. Croatan is not bad if you don't mind (no offense to anyone reading this) all the high school kids and it is one of the only places w/o those bs surfing laws in the summer.

[enjoytheride]

Thanks fellas, I'm not trying to be all "yo I'm new tell where the best spots are bra" sorry if it came off that way, I just figured sandbridge was no big secret and wondered if it got super crowded just like va beach. what's the parking situation at croatan and sandbridge?

[Xtreme*Liquidshredda]

at croatan in the lot for a $ or on the side of Croatan rd or twighlight for free. If you stay after 7pm they'll tow you. Lot closes at 8.

[jrobe057]

Sandbridge costs a few bucks at Little Island (pier) but the wave is not that good. The road is free if you can find a spot that some f 'n tourist hasn't taken. The waves are not as good at Sandbridge though. It gets very backwashy at about 2 hrs to low to about 2 hrs after. Think about trying Northend like I said, the parking is free and about at easy and it is closer to everything than Sandbridge is. But hey, if the surf is good in the summer, it is probably not a "beach day" anyway and parking is not as hard.

[ECboarder]

in sandbridge you should make the 5 minute drive down to S-turns. parking is free but sometimes hard to get a space in the summer. in the winter u can park anywhere u want. and it never charges any $ for parking there. and you can sometimes sneak into the parking at the sandbridge market if u go around the front and into the back:o;)

[enjoytheride]

Hey what's up with the hiking trail i can see on google earth on the south end of Sandbridge?

[BonerSurfs]

Man, VB is not that crowded you guys... I would love to see you guys surf in San Diego, Talk About Crowded!!!!

Just stay away from 1st street, and yes, sandbridge is less crowded. The hiking trail is just that, a trial. But the waves down there are usually sub par. VB just requires alot of checking, knowing where the good sandbars are, and going there.

P.S. If your gonna drive to Sandbridge, you may as well drive down south to the outer banks. I know it seems like a *****, but its not that bad. I used to do it multiple times a week. If there is swell go south, you wont be dissapointed.



P.P.S If you wanna know a bomb shortcut to the OBX from VB just hit me up with a PM.

[BonerSurfs]

STAY OFF THE NORTH END!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'LL JUST GET BURNED!!!!!!!!!!!

No Really though, Stop recommending the NE.

[jrobe057]

North end has much better waves and is much less crowded! Its better he goes there....
I agree about 1st street. It makes surfing seem almost like a team sport.
Do you have a key to the gate that leads to Corova?
If so, is it really that much of a shortcut as opposed to taking 168.
I agree too about down south, if I'm ever off and there's surf, I'm there. Sometimes even if I get off early or go in late, I go

[jrobe057]

Oh yeah, VB has a much greater scarcity of waves than San Diego does. I think if I lived somewhere where there was fun surf more than, on average, once every 2 weeks, I wouldn't be so preoccupied with getting as many as I can in such an allotted time.

[enjoytheride]

STAY OFF THE NORTH END!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'LL JUST GET BURNED!!!!!!!!!!!

No Really though, Stop recommending the NE.

?? say what

[ughVeeBee]

It's a trick question, there's no where good to surf in VB.

Welcome to the worst place in the word for surfing. If you recently quit your job to move here you might still have time to go beg for it back. Seriously, I was in Lake Ontario last month and there were better waves than there's been in VB since last July.

RUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

[enjoytheride]

haha, not that dumb

moved from wilmington, nc for a job

[ughVeeBee]

Not that dumb? What do you think's going on? I'm not some protective local trying to run you off, I'm trying to warn you, brutha! I hope it's a really good job, I fell for that, too.

I wish it wasn't so but you'll find out for yourself I guess. BTW I've been in the water four times since Nov, that's mostly due to lack of swell, during swell season. And summer's coming.

[retrosurfvb]

not that dumb? What do you think's going on? I'm not some protective local trying to run you off, i'm trying to warn you, brutha! I hope it's a really good job, i fell for that, too.

I wish it wasn't so but you'll find out for yourself i guess. Btw i've been in the water four times since nov, that's mostly due to lack of swell, during swell season. And summer's coming.
Are you serious?? There have been so many waves since spring has started!! There have been AT LEAST 4 times where we have had 3 or more days in a row of good waist-shoulder days. OH MY SWEET EARTH. FOUR TIMES SINCE NOVEMBER? Do you own a wetsuit? Do you have a nut sack? I was in New York last friday killing myself over not being here for 2 days of head high surf. AND HATTERAS? HATTERAS HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY FIRING OVER THE PAST MONTH. Thank goodness you dont bring your sorry self down there....you would be annihilated!!

I agree, it was a terrible winter....but the Spring has been SO GOOD and consistent. I can remember at least 5 head high days since the beginning of the season. And where were you?? Oh right, there was a lack of swell. Or was it a lack of testicles?

NEVER POST ON THIS SITE AGAIN. Everyone is now dumber for having read anything you wrote. You are a kook to such a high degree that even fat, hairy, hat-wearing people from Ohio would call you out on being a KOOK. They would be ripping you out of the water on their 11' foam boards.

Virginia Beach is full of people like you and I'm sick of it. Move to canada or alaska or the damn north pole so you'll never be near another computer and i will not have to waste a second reading what you post. Now go touch yourself to surfer magazine and keep fantasizing that you shredd

[ECsponger]

Whoa bro...

Hey anyone know if any buses i.e. Greyhound or similar bus company run from Salisbury south to Norkfolk/VA Beach via the Bay Bridge Tunnel? I priced out a round trip on Greyhound (not bad) but I can't find the route they take. Said it would take 12 hrs?!? I think.. that doesn't sound right and is totally not worth it. Might it venture up around the Bay? Tryna' come down that way for a concert instead of Nissan Pavilion ya know?

[ughVeeBee]

Ooopssseeee, I accidentally pressed reply. Since I'm here, thoughhhhhh...the ONE day last week that was good I was at work all day and had to work my second job in the evening (see my post about falling for the ****ty jobs here), and last month the week we had a good swell I was upstate NY (again, see post about jobs). As far as Hatteras is concerned yeah it's been going off there, but some of us are grown-up folks and have responsibilities and can't get skip school anytime we want and go surf. If you're a grown up then I apologize, you're truly lucky to be able to get down there so often. And yes, I do get there when I can, despite my little tiny nuts.

I'm honored that you felt the need to respond at me in 40pt type and all-caps. I've really missed eastcoastsurf.com the last couple months, good to see that type of passion is still alive somewhere.

So, maybe you should give the new kid your personal email address and phone number so he can thank you in the middle of July for all the great waves you've been promising he's gonna be getting. And then you can show him your big testicles in return.

[enjoytheride]

lol. I understand that most of the east coast suckswave wise, I've lived on the southeastern nc coast my whole life. . It's flat pretty much all summer in WB and CB, too. not half as crowded as it is up here though that's what sucks. guess i'll just have to be a man and get used to the cold a** water and crowds.

[ughVeeBee]

Yeah, man, I guess year over year it's hit or miss for wave quality here. I have to admit Winter 07-08 was pretty darn good, I usually was able to get out 5 of 7 days a week, sandbridge to 80th. Don't worry about the cool water, one day soon a big finger somewhere snaps and you're in boardshorts until November. Once boardwalk season hits the Touron factor kicks in but the crowds can be avoided the further north you get. I still like to go to 1st st though, I like being called a kook by Ohioans. Especially the ones wearing hats.

[enjoytheride]

[QUOTE= I still like to go to 1st st though, I like being called a kook by Ohioans. Especially the ones wearing hats.[/QUOTE]



haha, nice

[zach619]

You guys seriously scare the sh** out of me.

I have been living in San Diego for 7 years, surfing the most crowded year round waves on the PLANET. yes, other than a few spots in Australlia, we have crowds, everyday all year. But since there are waves, who cares about a crowd. I can sit 50 deep at my local pier and still get sick sets all day. I guess if you mix OC MD summer crowds with no surf, I feel your pain.

I am thinking of moving to Wilmington or the OBX in the next few years, and damn, you guys scare me.

I plan on starting a family etc, so I wont be bummed to only surf when there is swell. Once or twice a week would be ideal.

But sh**, there are really no waves over there?

Im from OC MD, and I remember random swells all year, my whole life.

Yeah its cold like 9 months out of the year, but sh**, there are a few waves every now and then...

This lack of surf talk is depressing me. I'm going surfing...

[ughVeeBee]

OK really this is how it is here...

You go like three weeks getting up at 5:30 every day to check the surf, which is flat. Then you get to work and check the cams, still hopeful, but still flat. You check cams once again right before getting off of work, still flat. On the drive home you convince yourself that even though it's flat you're gonna suit up and paddle just to get wet. You cruise to your favorite spot and it's flat, you re-think your earlier intentions and promise yourself that even if it's flat tomorrow you'll go. Tomorrow it's flat. Rinse, repeat. It's like some kind of self-masochism.

One day you get really lucky and god's honest truth there's waves!!! Good ones, too!!! (if you're starving...and someone throws you a Ritz...) You paddle out and find yourself fighting each and every of nearly 50 wave-starved surfers for every last ripple. Of course, according to the law of "there's always someone better than you" you end up either kicking out or finding yourself in some type of clash with some other dude (or worse, chick — and no one likes fighting with girls) on every wave.

My wife is always getting on my case for being negative (not to mention long-winded) but I try to remind her that while right and wrong is subjective, the truth is always what it is.

Anyone in VB seriously want to dispute this? I want to know where you're surfing. And I'm not talking to the guys I see at first nearly every day who are happy just floating around.

[retrosurfvb]

Anyone in VB seriously want to dispute this? I want to know where you're surfing. And I'm not talking to the guys I see at first nearly every day who are happy just floating around.

Let me tell you something boy, I'm a grown ass man. I was raised in the Andes mountains by a pack of wild wolves. I've seen sasquatch, and I kicked his ass. I once single-handedly fought off a pack of wild elk with a toothpick and can of skoal.

So when i hear your crazy-ass ranting about how much you hate virginia beach, it offends me. First of all, because virginia beach is a part of America. And if you hate a part of America, then you are a terrorist. And I hate terrorists.

Secondly, I moved to virginia beach after I lived in the Andes mountains with my wolf parents. So I consider this by home. I personally built the Lesner bridge with used men's underwear that I stole from a thrift shop. So if you disrespect my home town again, I'm not afraid to go grizzly style and hunt your ass down.

In conclusion, the Founding Fathers of this great nation would agree on two things if they were still here today: 1. Terrorists Suck. 2. You are a terrorist.

So the next time you want to get on your fancy-pants internet machine and disrespect America then think twice. Cause I learned how to kill a man with my bear hands when i was raised by wild animals

[ughVeeBee]

Dude, in all seriousness...I think we'd be great friends in real life. I love VB as much as I hate it.

[retrosurfvb]

Dude, in all seriousness...I think we'd be great friends in real life. I love VB as much as I hate it.

Perhaps one day we could set aside our differences and drink at the same table together. I will see you around ughVeeBee. Godspeed.

[enjoytheride]

You guys seriously scare the sh** out of me.

I have been living in San Diego for 7 years, surfing the most crowded year round waves on the PLANET. yes, other than a few spots in Australlia, we have crowds, everyday all year. But since there are waves, who cares about a crowd. I can sit 50 deep at my local pier and still get sick sets all day. I guess if you mix OC MD summer crowds with no surf, I feel your pain.

I am thinking of moving to Wilmington or the OBX in the next few years, and damn, you guys scare me.

I plan on starting a family etc, so I wont be bummed to only surf when there is swell. Once or twice a week would be ideal.

But sh**, there are really no waves over there?


Im from OC MD, and I remember random swells all year, my whole life.

Yeah its cold like 9 months out of the year, but sh**, there are a few waves every now and then...

This lack of surf talk is depressing me. I'm going surfing...

Man, I just moved from Wilmington, and I loved it there, sure the waves aren't that great at WB and CB, nothing as consistent as what you would be used to. But there are waves, and wilmington and wrightsville are awesome towns. I have surfed some of the funnest waves ever pretty much alone at Fort Fisher. I've never lived in the OBX, but you def would have better surf there, obviously. But for jobs and cool people and lots of chicks (and I mean LOTS) Wilmy is the place. oh yeah, the water is over 70 from like late april until october too, did i mention hot girls?

[zach619]

haha. nice.

Yeah, that is kind of the decisions im trying to make. Obviously, more jobs and potential in wilmington than OBX.

So, the over all quality of life down in carolina or wrightsville beach is better. Nightlife, year round activities. Good jobs. An actual city to have fun in.

Or, you just live for the surf in the rugged outer banks.

Like I said, I dont need ot surf every day like i do in SD.

So, 70 degree+ water most of the year sounds SICK!

The water in SD only drops to 58 in the winter. But in the dead of summer, it only maxes out around 70-72.

I wear boardies like 2 months out here. 3 mil rest of the year.

So yeah, warm water is quite appealing. Moving from OCMD to SD, i have never really had the soup bowl water temps of the hot summers.

And my girl and I miss the super hot summer days and nights back east.

The lack of humidity always cools things off in SD at night.

[zach619]

P.S.

Im just still a little frightened by the potential of hurricane damage down there.

I am looking at houses etc right by the beaches or bayside in carolina beach etc, and then I'm like, wait a minute, it is in "Flood Zone #", then I start thinking of how damaging it could be to live close to the beach.

I better get some damn good insurance! And a fast car to high tail it out of the surf right before the storm hits land!

[mitchell]

But sh**, there are really no waves over there?

Im from OC MD, and I remember random swells all year, my whole life.


Va bch is just more inconsistent than spots north (OCMD) and south (OBX) and the bottom is wierd and kind of holds gutless, mushy lines. VA bch and OBX is kind of like the difference between Mission Bch and Blacks.

[Salty J]

VB is Surfer Purgatory.

[zach619]

mitchell: so vb is much less punchy than ocmd? last few times I got good swell in ocmd, I was surfing pretty hollow 48th street. so vb has less power for the most part than oc? and the wind conditions tend to clean up better in md as well. more straight offshores?

I am more interested in how wilmington compares to swells in ocmd than what goes down in vb. but since vb is a potential location for me in the future, all of this local knowledge is much appreciated.

[mitchell]

mitchell: so vb is much less punchy than ocmd?

Yeah I go there quite a bit for work, and many times with the wife. VB is a cool city with lots to do but yeah the surf is less punchy and hollow than OC and less consistent. When the swell is small, like 2-3' or less - typical east coast - VB tends to have a lot of the slow, crumbly stuff.

I've caught it good several times, and when theres swell, its rippable as hell, but the good spots are jammed.

[jrobe057]

Yeah I go there quite a bit for work, and many times with the wife. VB is a cool city with lots to do but yeah the surf is less punchy and hollow than OC and less consistent. When the swell is small, like 2-3' or less - typical east coast - VB tends to have a lot of the slow, crumbly stuff.

I've caught it good several times, and when theres swell, its rippable as hell, but the good spots are jammed.

There is only one of the so-called "good spots" that you mention that get really crowded. Maybe also on the other side of the rocks too when there's a longer period northern/eastern swell does it get bad. On any good swell though, you can always go somewhere and surf in peace and it will likely be not much better than any of the other popular spots. Drive south about two hours though and you'll see what makes this place livable.

[enjoytheride]

mitchell: so vb is much less punchy than ocmd? last few times I got good swell in ocmd, I was surfing pretty hollow 48th street. so vb has less power for the most part than oc? and the wind conditions tend to clean up better in md as well. more straight offshores?

I am more interested in how wilmington compares to swells in ocmd than what goes down in vb. but since vb is a potential location for me in the future, all of this local knowledge is much appreciated.

masonboro goes off pretty good on a solid south swell. it's an uninhabited barrier island south of WB that you can acess by boat, or even paddle across the inlet to get to. It gets pretty crowded on a good swell though. I've never surfed OC but from pics and what i've heard, it will not get that big and hollow in the wilmington area. it will get some good surf with a nice south swell, like when a hurricane is on the way. but most of the time your looking at typical east coast dribble.