who here has been surfing this week?

Leo Carillo aka Secos Arroyo aka Seccos..........has a big friggin rock in the ocean and the waves kind of jack off of it and break in a point-like manner sort of.

Zuma for your 1980's California dreams and dump, close-out barrels. You'll think you were in Jersey.

Spicoli, go to the Oxnard area too. Yeah Silver Strand and all that, but check the Hueneme Pier. It has it's moments. Ventura might have some angry fellows around so don't be Seldom Seen, Be UNSEEN. Be sneaky.

Spicoli now here is a surfing question: Where have you surfed up north? Ah, man I can't think of the name of the premier central coast spot. Oh well. Central Coast is home to deceased legend Dustin Ray. Pay your repsects by drinking a Budweiser.

I wish I was in San Francisco. I used to watch The Streets of San Francisco so I'm pretty familiar with the place. Carl had the best drunk, red-nose.

 

Haven't been out in Ventura or SB counties but plan to.

So LC's got a sea stack or rock pile? Nice.

Northern spots I've hit: Pacifica (all the way from Pedro to well past the pier), Bolinas, Fort Point, Steamer's. From OB to SC we checked every single break on the way to Steamer a couple weeks back and stopped at each one to see if any weren't blown out or tide poor. But have only surfed the 7 or so mentioned. Plan to hit north of Bolinas soon as well as all the way to Monterey.

SF is great, man. I very much underestimated it at first though knew it had lots of potential.

 

First of all who is "We?"

You surfed Fort Point?

Try not to get sucked out to The Potato Patch.

Man, I've never been north of Santa Barbara.

Oh, go to Solvang if you want to feel like you are in some Dutch/Germanic village. Totally b!tchen. That's in the Santa Barbara area. Hit the Oil Piers, too !! Ha, you can't. They ain't there no mores.

F UCK man, I got to get out of here. There's so many better places out there. I'm California dreaming on such a winter's day.

 

Big Sur to Morrow Bay... through endless rock reefs and beachbreaks, most of them empty. San Simeon seals and kelp groomed, glassy velvet waves. Late summer/early fall could create some memorable sessions.

 

That would be Danish, not dutch or german. Great wine tasting places.

 

Same people.....non-vowel users. Yeah them people never use a e i o u and sometimes y.

 

That is because they keep drinking their Solvang wine.
Presidio wine is fantastic stuff. Best chardonnay I ever had. Their reds are awesome as well.

 

Anyone here ever surf in Washington? I surf a couple of magical spots that break every now and then, but aside from that it's your standard cold water beach break. I had an amazing long board session down south on saturday evening. The waves looked so small, but my friend and I went out anyways. I think the ocean wanted to thank us for our patience because we scored some absolutely perfect little waist high peeling rights with the incoming tide. It was the kind of session where you just know every set wave will be amazing. It was like drop in, drag your hand, get a few pumps in, and then float it off when it closed out. mucho bueno! The air was in the 40s and the water was low 50s but the sky was clear and it was worth the frozen hands.

 

There are a handful of PNW dudes on here and a very recent tread about area breaks if you look back a few pages.

 

Checking in from Westport, WA dude. Sounds like you already are familiar with the place. It's been about waist to chest high the last few days, but it will be picking up to around shoulder high in a day or 2. I've been hitting it in a 4/3 sans gloves...hasn't been bad at all.

Emass, Riley is correct. Secos has a monstrous rock in the takeoff spot. On smaller days, I've seen locals climb up onto the bottom of the rock and then launch into a "step-off" takeoff when the swell hits it. Pretty much a short point break, water is generally a few degrees colder than every other spot in the county.

Oil Piers are long gone, but there's a ton of good beach break around there with Silver Strand being the best, when it's working...kinda similar to Black's. California Street is a decent point break. Oxnard and Hueneme have good uncrowded beach peaks. Locals in the area can be sketchy, mucho cuidado.

 

Got a session yesterday. Checked it for about 2 hours. I showed up at dead low tide and it looked bad. Drove up and down the island trying to find a working peak but it was just too shallow. Glassy conditons though. Straight offshore, but just shallow. No spots were working so I resigned myself to waiting a little longer then making the paddle across the inlet to the island. Ended up seeing a friend in the parking lot and paddled across with him. Waves were waist high and breaking near the jetty with the SE direction. Wave came in deep then hit a shallow spot and would form up nicely. Brought the 7'0" because my shoulder has been hurting and I wanted easy paddling. Ended up scoring some really fun waves for a couple hours with just a handful of guys out. Stayed glassy the whole time. After I left and went to the local spot to grab some grub I checked the wind and it went onshore shortly after I got out.

One of those days...

 

It was in another thread...about being connected, but this is a great example of timing the window, getting some good quality waves in an uncrowded lineup, and leaving just before the winds mess it up. That is a great feeling of connectedness with the winds, waves and tides.

 

Mid afternoon...Delmarva. Shot this before paddling out for two hours of glassy fun ones. Rode a quad mini simmons which was perfect for these soft-faced waves. lefts/rights. After a couple hours checked another spot that was way bigger, not working at all, came home and celebrated a fun-assed session with a cold adult beverage.

 

Damn mitchell. That's clean fun. What was air and water temp? Today?

 

waves were fun but the tide screwed it up at about 4 pm and the wind came onshore. Went from fun to crap in about an hour.

 

was out at 630 this morning right before the sun came up, fog was everywhere and could barely see the waves coming in but you could certainly hear them, paddled out to waist high and clean peeling to the right. local cam was useless from the fog so I was the only one out besides the dolphins that kept swimming by spookin me out. rode my 7'0" walden and had a blast. caught more waves than I needed. great way to start the day, then work had to ruin it lol

 

Dudes jersey had the best waves today...but youz already know that..
Dipped out of work at 11..got aboutz 2 hours of water time with a fifteen minute hydrating irie break..a little rain and sleet but the air temps felt warm around these parts

Ice cream head aches are still all to real but getting naked outside didn't feel to bad after my last surf Saturday..plus I got all natural rinse

Mitchell always gets good pics.. I was thinking about how Mitchell always takes cool pics today..but it was way to wet to be taken pictures..

 

The waterfowl in the foreground, with two flying in the air above the surfer, it's a nice touch. Sweet!

 

Super fun yesterday bigger than forecasted no wind and Noone hardly out till the school bell rang

 

We don't surf. Too busy posting here!!