Defining "landlocked"

Oh... and to add this to the conversation... When I tore my rotator cuff and couldn't surf for several weeks. I called that, "dry docked" rather than "landlocked." Just thought I'd pass that along...

 

Awesome - - have only experienced that view without snow. That's my favorite stretch of that road, btw

 

same even even better when its full of leaves.

 

Only a 10 minute bike ride and a little over a mile from my local break. Under a mile and a 5 minute bike ride to the beach.

Just two blocks from the glimmer glass haha. Not landlocked at all. When I lived up in Bergen County where I'm from, I guess I considered that landlocked.

 

I used to live inland (bout 30 min drive) then shifted to the coast a couple of years ago, and by far the biggest difference is catching all those in-betweener days - those mornings, for example, where the swell bumps up unexpectedly up for a few hours and *you* are now johnny-on-the-spot to catch it.

 

For me the biggest difference is being able to catch it at sunrise on those weekdays where it will be calm / offshore and glassy early on but wind picks up and shifts onshore and makes it choppy or blown out in the afternoon.

I can't tell you how many sessions I got last year first thing in the morning where it was glassy and fun and then a friend of mine or someone I know would try to hit it in the afternoon only to find it's crappy. I score while they missed it, kinda feel guilty telling them how good it was every time they ask but that's just how it is a lot of times. This was especially true in the Summer.

 

I'm truly glad to live 25 min inland, at least living in Delaware. I have lived a block from the ocean in both Ocean City Maryland and Bethany Beach Delaware and came to really dislike the vibe of the beach towns. I wont go into why because it'll just make me sound like a prick (which I am but still try to avoid showing it off).

I'll gladly drive 30 minutes to surf, and then come inland to cheap land, woods, wildlife, quiet evenings, dirt roads (a few are left), and friendly neighbors who dont mind a trashy shaping shed in the woods and ugly cars in the driveway, and whose lives don't revolve around beach houses and bar scenes. OH ****! the prick came out anyway!!

Working 10 minutes from surf helps as well... makes it easy to duck out for a post-work surf.

 

LOL I hear ya. I'm still technically inland, but only 15 minutes to the water. We chose to be off the beach to get more home for our money and have a little buffer between us and the ocean for hurricane season, but still close enough to never miss a session if I choose not to.

 

that's my prob now. I live on the beach, but it's more of a hippy vibe which i can post up w/ no problems, but my job is dwntn and closest beach is 20 min. doesn't give me enough time to have a session in the waters during lunch. my last job was 5 min out from the beach and i miss those sessions, seemingly to make the work day real short and easy-going for the most part

 

Regarding living "at the beach". There is an old sailing saying, "When you live ON the water, sooner or later your house will be IN the water".

 

That's the view when you know you've arrived. When I'm coming home from a long trip that's the stretch of road that is the start of my neighborhood, I always take a deep breath right there, ahhh I'm home.

 

Here's my take. I think it's all related to distance. Most people on this forum wouldn't even be surfers if it wasn't for these internet forecasting sites and cams. That means they are essentially landlocked. In the past, the only people surfing were the ones living close to the beach who can check it with their own eyes. The great internet and surfing forecasting sites have brought more "surfers" to beaches where locals would be the only surfers. Now, these landlocked surfers have made many breaks too crowded when they would have never even known about surfing without the internet.

 

Doubt you will be at my break. It's just a handful of locals. Every now and then, some others try to paddle out and usually go right for the peak. They are blocked and snaked until they move to another jetty. If they follow etiquette, then you are more than welcome but you still may not get many waves.

 

This is how everything is becoming. Where I live, it was always year round people where generations have lived at the beach and made a living on the water or near the coast. Now, we have the Summer bennys coming down more often and some now commuting to work from their beach house. They drive their bmws and just don't look like they belong at the beach. They have the house just to say they have a beach house. It has made it hard for other locals to keep houses here now with the higher property taxes and these neighbors who stay out all night (especially in summer and on weekdays) when the rest of us actually have to work.

 

Like the above explanation or not it is the truth. In the past 15 years I have seen the spot I frequent go from a small handful of local guys, of which I was not one, to a horde of "surfers" on any day May to September with the slightest ripple. Most can't surf, some can. Most are morons, some are nice guys and mind their own business. I have no problem with sincere people who love surfing, my only issue are the hordes that woke up on that morning and decided they wanted to play surfer for the day.

 

It's funny how people who live far from the beach get their hackles up at any reference to traveling surfers. If the reference is less than glowing they strike back with "it's a free country!" "Your not gonna stop me from doing whatever I want!" etc. I have made this point before but maybe it's worth saying again. The people outsiders see as "the locals" are nothing more then neighbors that have learned over years to deal with each other in and out of the water. All locals don't love each other they just know who is who in the water and what they can get away with.

If your not a problem in the water it really doesn't matter where your from. If your a creep and the shoe fits then wear it, if not ignore the comments. I don't think anyone in their right mind believes all people that have to travel to surf are kooks.

 

Words spoke well ^^

It's always odd to me when a couple of us are surfing down The Wild Side a ways at TPTSNBM & here comes a truck with 3-4 people, boarts loaded, & they stop & sit up there waiting to see how we're doing. We always go into 'miss the wave' mode (which is easy for me to do) or we just stop surfing, paddle out further & sit there for a few minutes until they leave. It's annoying to miss good waves though.

Gonna be so many more people in the water this coming year.....sigh.....really, the wonderful years went away & now we have asshat gridlock too many days. Thank goodness for the gate.

 

Oh the irony.

#localismisrelative

 

Haha, I've tried that but was never sure if it worked or not.

 

Haha, I've tried that but was never sure if it worked or not.