The good news is that the sun has been out for two days straight, like it’s summer or something! Otherwise, today’s session offered nothing unique to anything else I’ve been getting over the last few weeks. Water is still in the VERY low 60s, but with the sun is out it a lot of hot…
While on a conference call this afternoon the power went out. I immediately took that as a sign from Poseidon that I was supposed to go back out and surf. As fast as I could I got my trunks on and my bike loaded before the power came back on. But the afternoon winds blew…
There were rumors buzzing on the Internets last night that some Portoers were thinking of assaulting the beaches of El Porto in a dawn patrol this morning. Having to hear about how great it was on Tuesday, I was not about to miss out again, so I headed up to meet the bros. Everyone had…
The water has been warmer this past week then I can ever remember it being here in Southern California. I always think we are lucky if it nears 70ºF. But now it’s been well over 70ºF for almost a whole week. Who knew it could be so good? (Hawai’ians, that’s who!) With an exciting new…
Originally I had gone down to the pier to take some photos of Kelly Slater in his first heat at the US Open. (Keep track of the heats here. Live video coming on Thursday.) But then a wicked fog bank rolled in and the competitions got stalled. I waited for it to lift for a…
The ankle-biters were snappin’ like catfish today. And the waves that did have some “size” to them tended to close out before they began. Due to the poor forecast we were down to the core Portoers (Highlighters), just Aaron, Josh and me. Still the water was warm so were were all out in trunks, which…
It is like a good soap opera out there. The swell continues to build from yesterday. Today the waves were 2-4s with the occasional head-high wave. I tried waiting for mid-tide today, but that didn’t seem to help much. Most waves were sectiony close-outs. All I really got out of today’s sesh were some fun…