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San Francisco - Ocean Beach

Surf Reports for Ocean Beach (SFOB)


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As if the buoy & wind readings didn't tell you already, let me attest that OB was knee to waist high (on the set waves) wind slop with stiff onshores this morning.

However - I was sick all last week and damned if I wasn't going to paddle out. Egged on by sticker, I took my low expectations into the water and damned if I didn't have a fun kookslop session. Lots of little pathetic (yet fun) rides. One of those days when you get out of the water, look back & think "damn did I just surf that crap?".

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1194

dodged the bay to breakers crowd, scored some fun little ones. skated a quarterpipe with friends on the closed great highway and met / talked with k spaz about ob. good times in the sun.

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Wednesday 3pm - Ocean Beach, fair- surfing

Choppy Sloppy but not bad. Got some short rides. Saw a huge sea lion headed straight towards me. I think he wanted a bite of my sweet feet.

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Really fun, bowly peaks in the CH-SH range. Pretty inconsistent, but the sets always provided 2-3 good, rippable waves. Not much crowd, but a good amount of current. The south swell + incoming tide made it hard to stay on the same peak. Water felt a few degrees warmer than normal but maybe it was the warm evening air. Once the tide came in it sort of killed the spot I was at, but even as I was changing i saw some good sets roll in and it made me wish I stayed out just a little longer.

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1460

Mediocre maintenance session. Got one nice, long, waist-high right. The rest was pretty meh. But still, not windy, easy paddle, and better than going to the gym.

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Saturday 10am - Ocean Beach, fair surfing

First I had a cup of tea, and then I got on the bike.

It was freeeezing pedaling out to OB this morning. I actually added a couple extra hills just to crank up the body heat, because apparently arm warmers + leg warmers were not enough to battle the gloom. Srsly cold. Ugh.

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375

You're welcome. Those of you who made it out today, I'm glad you got to enjoys the great spirit's personal birthday gift to me.

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4088

Very nice today, a whale spotting, a dolphin reconnoiter, and a dragonfly pretending to be a parrot. Oh yeah there were some nice shoulder to head tasties for the taking too. Clean, but a little spring mixy, but it's May 10, so I'm not expecting much :) Go get some whilst you can. I may go out later too for the double, depending on the wind.

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