Those barrels are godly. I know you're drinking and watching blue tubes on youtube, but just know, your chance is coming up.
**** that to, id say go for palm beach. weird how Miami will be good and ft laughterdale will suck and its closer to the opening of the bahamas....thats what ive herd anyone ever surfed ft laughter?
Lived one block from the beach in Ft. Lauderdale for 3 years and it only got a decent sized glassy/barreling swell one time. Plenty of rideable windswells, but nothing like I've seen south beach do.
Thanks Tard, I had to youtube some SB barrels. I had seen a couple of the videos before, but forgot just how how fast those things are!!!!!!! At least the videos I was watching.
South Beach is a beautiful wave when it's on. But even on a mediocre day it always seems to be a sh!t show. I have a couple of friends who surf there on the reg and they've told me some crazy stories. I'm 25 miles away and probably will never surf there. I don't need that ish. If it's good there it's probably as good or better at my lonely, empty spot. Solitude > crowds any day.
my wife is from FTL and I have some family there so I visit in the winters once in a while. I'm always hoping for warm water barrels in the winter but it almost never happens.. I did surf ONE good day at a really cool, super rare spot in FTL.. that's one good day in the ten years I've been visiting. Won't say where it was but it was an interesting place to be surfing with the large traffic nearby... and there were manatees. Any one else ever surf there?
I know where you're talking about. Not really a secret spot but access is difficult. Haven't surfed there yet but I've watched from the other side. Waves really jack up nice on the right swell.
Imagine waiting in the keys for a swell though... I was down there a few weeks ago and this guy with a board repair shop was telling me how they get "swell" in the winter sometimes when waves refract off the outlying islands or something, he showed me a vid of a good day and it was like knee high at best. He must drink a **** ton
I lived and surfed down here my whole life and have never done it. Before webcams and vidoes and TV and radio, we only had rumors, and the common mindset was it was good on a hard south wind swell. then we heard of the "swell bypass": When a very strong cold front with a very northerly fetch would pass, the first day would be flat until the low pressure center would kick us some surf, late pm or the next day in PB County. Down in SoBe it would pump 4-6 foot A frames at dawn. Then we saw footage, and the crowds, and it was hard to time the event until I figured the meteorology. Usually its better up here when a front passes, and way less crowded, and very few cholos or brazzos, that can make it very edgy in good waves with long lulls between sets. So I have not done it. If I was down there for a concert and stayed overnight, maybe for shi4s and giggles. All hung over, talking and singing in tongues just to keep the crowd at bay.
