Even though there wasn't much wind, it was far from clean. Had a couple crap close out whitewater rides and a nice, exceptionally long left from far outside all the way in toward Chalupaville and decided to end it on that high note.

Thursday. Foggy. Mushy. The occasional Gorilla in the Mist.

"Kinda-sorta cleaned up after the fog burned off. There was a left-handed gorilla in there ..."

Decent surf at high tide today.... Larger sets breaking outside, and the shorter period energy made for a decent amount of work.

Got a few good lefts on the inside..

"This report reminds me of a bygone era when people used Stokereport to report the surf and ..."

"the surf used to b better.."

"And Alana was underage at the time."

"I don't know but what is up with the NW winds in February? Can't. Remembers February so bl ..."

"Yeah this wind has Pacifica and OB messed up. I went up to SC last week to get some de ..."

meh. Messy. But it was sunny, there was parking and I took out my gopro camera for the first time. Whew-out of paddle shape...

Desperate for some salty action. Lindy cleaned my sinuses out with the occasional head high sweetie pushing its way through a porridge of warbly low tide mush. Sunshine. Friday afternoon. That's the +.

7-8:30A...better than I thought it would be. CH, fun. Sure it's mobbed now. Fair, says I.

"Got out at 8 and headed straight for the ######. Caught a couple of fun closeout bombs tha ..."

"Wow, the "n o r t h e n d" of Pacifica is apparently a secret spot!"

"oh, sure, now EVERYBODY knows where to find sandy bottom closeout smackdown. way to go blu ..."

Probably a plus really, but let's leave it here for now. Sunny, offshore. There's some bumps out there and it cleaned up for a little while this morning. Mostly in the WH-CH range, but a few bombers came through and didn't totally close out. Long-weekend crowds in-effect.

observed: whales

"Accuracy suggests no plus, but crap conditions all week means subjective pluses for all! Y ..."

Checked the nob, the mob, and the sob earlier which resulted in admiring those who were charging it; however, those lines of whitewash weren't really enticing me to have a good ole fashioned paddle battle with mother nature. So to the south I went where things were much mellower and surprisingly pretty damn good. Rode a bigger board today which made things that much sicker. It is always rad to see dudes who are in their 60s or 70s charging waves. It is comforting to know I'll have a stoke source for as long as I can manage to get out in the water.

"Checked it at 3:30 and it had gone to crap"

spent the day sucking in resin fumes and the ocean was the only thing that could make me feel clean again. took a thick fish out into the water and had a blast. the waves were breaking quite nice and you could actually get some fun rides in. sun was shining and most people were good vibing.

You know the waves are ripping when there are more than 5 parking spots against the sidewalk open in the little parking lot directly south of the Taco Hell. An empty line up (or beach for that matter) with lots of rad choppiness to get ya feeling funky. An occasional womper set would come through to keep ya paddling for more. Rode a couple fun ones and managed to give my board a nice big gaping wound by riding directly over a rock (oops). Every time it looks like shit from the beach is usually when I have the most fun. Maybe it's that OB upbringing?

"thanks for the update. Sorry about your board. "

"this mornin kept heading down south when i saw the empty LM parking lot and nasty sloppy c ..."

What a letdown after yesterday. Small, flat, mushed out. There were a few short, soft rides to be had in between the long waits, but nothing special at all. Blah. At least the weather was warm.

Yeah, I said GOOD! Fun fun fun, long lefts and rights to be had near chalupaville. And perfect weather to boot. Just a classic mellow, late summer-like day.

"Sounds like the afternoon was better than the morning! Mix of closeouts and lumps. "

7-9 AM let the pics do the talking

observed : happy campers on the beach

"Poor+ surfing. Id' go Fair on the camping but other spots were probably good- for their r ..."

"my dog tried to roll on that vagrant. "

"I actually got 2 lefts that held up for about 30 yards. Go linda. "