who here has been surfing this week?

Yankee, I like the description "morbidly obese Pennsyltuckians". Got a laugh from that one!
My wife, a well figured french girl, once went to PA for a meeting--she was stunned by how fat Pennsylvanians were--it was the first thing she said on her return. Funny as hell!!

 

its summer time...I occasionally surf fish...tho a tad more responsible...sharks should never be fully beached and hook extracted quickly and released quickly...I fish with a guy that is a guide and preaches this to his clients...he also actively tags sharks...good guy

anyway went in town in am rather then driving "my very short distance, of about 2 miles" to my usual spot cause surf was small...surprisingly fun little knee to thigh peelers.

 

Nice, BC... Never too early!

 

It was fun, actually, the surfing asspect of it all. Then I got out of the ocean...

 

The French, in particular, being as slim as they (usually) are despite their caloric intake of culinary delights, have always reeled at the sights of pork chop America. Good story there Barry.

So, gotta ask, with all of the scare headlines about Zika taking over 25, 30, 40% of the genpop in PR (and that obviously doesn't phase you) are you at all concerned & if so how will you deal with the death bugs? Not meaning to derail this tread.

 

I've got nothing but we do have a slight glimmer of hope. In the middle of June in south Florida? GTFO!



No doubt this shall dissipate to nothing over the coming days.

 

I like the way you think, bruddah....the time is nigh to book a trek to Costa Zika

 

Deep Woods Off is your friend! I hate how that sh*t smells and feels lol

 

Camped out at DE Seashore State Park Saturday to Sunday with the chica. We had a blast. Explored Bethany, boardwalk, beach, ice cream, etc. Sunday I got up early around 6:30 and went to the Indian River Inlet. Scored a couple fun and long rides on the log. It was knee high and there were some perfectly lined up peelers. Swell didn't last long so we went back to the Bethany surf shop during a lull and found the lady a spring wetsuit. She wanted to go out. Drove back to the inlet and had her up on the log in no time. She's pretty athletic and was quick to pick it up. I was stoked and she was too. Good times.

 

Was at The Place That Shan't Be Named yesterday from about 7:30 until early afternoon. Snapped this pic before paddling out. As Yankee indicated it was fickle, but if you waited for the right wave, nice long rides were available in both directions, providing you were on a longboard. Me and the boy got plenty of waves before heading back to the burbs.

 

Rhode Island was completely going off yesterday. Logged about 3.5 hours on the Desert Island boart. It was probably shortboard-able, but man alive was it crowded, so a bigger boart was definitely the call. Gawd was it good, though.

 

fun overhead waves today, got a few 4 or five turners. yesterday was head high milk glass, got a solid cover up and a few long liners. Stoaked cause it was flat all last week when i was on a fire and the day i got back swell came to town. Love the ocean.

PNW holding it down for the summer, ill take a 5 mil with upwelling over boardshorts and a swim in a lake.

 

Not concerned about zika. It is pretty harmless virus actually, unless you are in early pregnancy. We lived with malaria, and dengue, also endemic in PR. Also, in recent years chunkinguya has emerged as another nasty fever disease. I did get dengue as a kid, but a mild case. Malaria scares the crap out of me more than any other of the fever diseases--it is hard to get rid of, it goes through return engagements, and fevers can be very high. The organism is a protozoan, and it hides in the liver and other deep recesses of our bodies, so anti-protozoan meds cannot get high enough concentrations to quickly get at it. It is a long haul. Btw, any anti-protozoan meds are poorly effective to start with. What is needed is an effective mosquito killer; once the vector is gotten rid of, the incidence (number of diagnosed cases) will drop dramatically for all of the mentioned diseases. My daughter, who is expecting our first grand child, did smartly cancel her trip to St. Lucia. Apparently she received her brains from her mom!!

 

a wave with herpes?

 

Ummm, dude...I think Skank was talking about *this*:



Seriously bro, not all PNW girls are STD-laden.

 

Monday was meh+. Chest-to-head with a few bigger sets. A bit walled, but you could find corners.
Tuesday was meh++, Head high with occasional OH sets. Still walled. Still warbly from the strong outer water winds.
Wednesday was meh+ again. Wind was on it, size was the same, I was sick, so I sat it out.
Today I'm hoping for meh++. Based on the drive in, should be HH to OH again. Still has some windswell funk at the town breaks, so my lunch spot will probably look like it has all week. Probably hit it unless the winds are bad.

This "big" south turned out to be a bust here. Maybe we're getting shadowed by the islands or something. 200 degrees is never great, but I was expecting a lot more size this week.

 

speed bump where are you at?

 

Good pics Kander!

 

Evening sesh, 2.5 ft. @ 6 S, full tide, side off wind. Some chump was on one of those little stand up board things w/ a weedeater motor on it being a **** and blue smoking the lineup. My youngest @ 12 has been pretty gung ho on learning lately but after quite a few surfs has had little luck. He is a burly kid and not light on his feet. I have always refused to push my kids into waves just because if they want to they need to get it themselves. They had left the wax on the log I was on melt and then become infused with sand nose & tail from the previous session, felt just like a 36 grit grinder disc. Time was short for me so no wax maintenance was done resulting in bloody knees and the top of my back foot toes. Glassy and soft, perfect to learn on, he is on another 9'2" log. I rode probably 30 little fun ones back to back weaving through the kooks. After a dozen or more bad wave choices one comes behind him in a perfect little peak, I proclaim that this is the one and he digs in and times it right. Disappearing completely after takeoff and getting to his feet in the curl he reappears on dry sand after managing the reform and winding up the windows once or twice and stepping off way down the beach kind of gracefully. My side hurt I was laughing so hard. I think I got to witness one that sticks with you to the end for him. "Had a lot of speed on that one" he said. Sweet.