who here has been surfing this week?

Thigh to waist high and clean at dawn yesterday. Given how late dawn is at this point I was surprised that I was the only one out there till 9 AM. There was no shortage of slow rolling longboard waves. The lines weren't terribly long but it was nice just to be out. The water is still pretty warm.

 

I had a nice hour of longborting on Sunday night. My best friend was visiting and in town on business, we surfed with him, but he had a bit of a head start. I didn't get to get out there until damn near sunset. It was right before sunset and surfed until after last light. Nothing great, but just a bit ''Rideable'' if anything. Had to break out the 3/2 for the first time since early June, but I hadn't been out in a couple weeks. Last day I was out, the water was close to 70 and the air was maybe 75 or close to 80.

Felt good to be in the water again, since it's rare for me during these months, with my heavy work schedule.

 

also rocking the suite in the mornings nowadays. waist hi, semi glassy. fun waves. paddle out was obnoxious tho. ducked dive 15x before i could sit tho no lineup was set at my break since no one was out for the first 20min . brought out the fisch 6'4 perfection and caught only a couple that were pretty fun on the drop but not much lines thereafter. every paddle out was assonine, so much water taken in, that i gave up knowing i was already late to work. i'll be out there this evening tho, lo tide 6pm=less paddle out

 

the evening session was very much still lo tide. didn't have much time to get on a wave to do much, closeout specials. didn't have to paddle out tho. we might get a bump this wknd, tho i bet it'll be thi hi tops

 

got out for a couple hours yesterday afternoon - like 4-6 p.m. Waves were ok to fun, but just as i was getting out, the skies kind of cleared up and a massive rainbow formed over the ocean. Pretty cool.

 

This morning was legit. Matt Keenan in Ocean City this AM. Just pieces of a 25 shot sequence. This was a very very long tube ride.

 

I shot over 300 pictures this morning and haven't even begun editing. Got some real gems.


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YES!! Those look awesum!

 

sweet rainbow, mitchell
nice barrel, CJ

 

Yewwww!

 

That wave looks hollow, dang

 

He was inside that thing for 3 or 4 seconds. There are more than a dozen more shots in the full sequence four of which he is completely gone with not even the tip of the board showing and a half dozen shots with the tip of the board showing.

 

suite! thx for posting CJ. looking forward to the swell coming up here the next few days, been a while since I've been in the wawa.

 

Just the tip. Great shots!!!!

 

Learned the hard way why they call it suicide jetty. Hit my face on a rock... Some minor lacerations and a black eye is not too bad all in all. Hope you scored today. Shot out to the off duty trauma nurse who did a free medical evaluation. I caught 1 sick barrel before getting sidelined on my second wave.

 

Gnarly, Rob... pics of your face, prease....

Pics of nurse on the other treadde...

My local was going off today. Finally got in the water and pulled into a few grinders. Been a long, difficult week, and it felt good.

 

Got a couple sick ones with my buoys in South Joizy. Shared the line up with my two friends and a few other cats, but not too crowded. Solid head high - 1ft overhead. Lots of fun lefts, was able to pull some really long lines and do some failed air attempts. Got cartwheeled on a monster of a right wedge pig dog attempt. Totally would have made kook of the day, but I laughed it off. Gotta appreciate getting destroyed sometimes. The sunset was insane too. A gorgeous orange sky. All in all stoked. Ready to grab a few from the residuals swell over the next few days.

Sick pics cj, mitch and gnarles.

 

Got out for about 2 hours today, in the early evening and until pitch black. Took a drive to Cape May for the evening, after sleeping literally 18 hours, until 2 this afternoon. My best friend and I both have family down there, so we used the day off to surf down there for a couple hours, then spent some time visiting for dinner.

I've had some pretty nice days in Cape May this year, which is really suite on a Southeast swell. It's a hell of a place to surf when it's actually surfable and it's a fun place to hang out!

Hoping for something Sunday when I'm off again. Sunday night is looking pretty nice, once the winds shift. As of now, it looks to not be happening until right around sunset. BOO!

 

Saw a pic from dirty jersey Weds. am Mike G. somewhere in Monmouth County heavy, thick barrel. Could have fit a small mini cooper in that one! I think it'll make surf-line in the days to come. Looks like we're set up for a nice run of waves! What a late summer / fall season best in years here in North Jersey!

 

I don’t get to surf much this time of year, due to a heavy work schedule. Maybe once a week, but I surfed twice this week for a combined 3 hours. May and June of this year was the best May/June that I can remember in Jersey/Monmouth County. I surfed all but maybe 10 days from early May until late June, when I went out to California for a week. I was available to surf pretty much every day too.