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check out some nice ones from yesterday yeeew!
my two friends and i actually discussed this yesterday morning as we were getting barreled silly with hardly anyone else in the water. with the rise of these surf forecast sites people have gotten truly lazy in terms of going down to the beach and checking out the surf. case in point: surfed a usually very busy spot in belmar yesterday with maybe 2 other guys on it from 8am til 2pm. it literally does not get any better than that.
that being said when i got back in at 4:30 for a little evening session the place was packed as word of the swell got out.
moral of the story: get off your couch and actually go check it. that or listen to NOAA weather radio. the bouys at 11pm on tuesday night were 10' at 8 seconds. doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that there would be surfed based off of that.
Tuesday in RI 7' @ 7. cloudy and gray but nothing like smelling the wood stoves and fireplaces burning when you're in the water.
I scored yesterday!!! BUT i didn't get to surfhad to be a responsible college student and take my midterms
knee to thigh super clean log jam here on folly...not epic but super lined up and still in boardies!
Kinda off topic, but...
I remember one day surfing, years ago, on a super foggy St. Patrick's Day morning at the Big Cove on Sandy Hook... too foggy to even see the beach from the lineup. I think I was alone, but I couldn't see anyone else even if there was somebody else out. The only thing I could hear, through the thick, wet, cold air, was the sound of bagpipes. Totally surreal... When I got out I followed the sound to find this burly, bearded Irish dude... kilt and all... standing on the rocks, blowing his heart out... just letting it rip into the fog... like he was pining for home.
THAT was cool...