Usually you have to be in the water to catch waves... Today was a great example. Looked crappy, ended up being some fun waist to head high shoulders. Super stoked, it's amazing what you can find at OB on the crappy looking days.

To the beautiful dark-haired girl that pulled up alone at 11 in a silver car, promptly pulled out a yellowed thruster, and charged OB alone: you rock. If you ever want a post session burrito, I'm buying.

"rockin' the slop and the missed connection--well done stacatto."

"Don't think I've ever seen this mynx you speak of...but I'm sold."

I don't want to get anyone's hopes up, but we found a small window of fun surf this AM. most of the beach looked pretty unsurfable, but we poked around looking for the best. Went out, wind died, things glassed off. Still fairly weak and gutless, but there were occasional shoulder high sets rolling through. Mostly drops & weak shoulders, but I connected one nice long right.

Dunno... I expected the worst and it was a lot better than that, so pretty stoked. Your mileage may vary - I heard it was a lot worse earlier, and it will probably be worse again soon...

"i will agree with you there was a window when low tide hit that it was somewhat decent. th ..."

"went out when it was bad and stayed out long enough for it to get fun. super windy and whi ..."

Don't bother. Blown out SH waves/chop. Take out your bike or skate instead I'd say. After bobbing and paddling around in the chop managed to catch a couple, but I only went out because I was there and I needed the maintenance.

"Lot lizards lazed about, gazing, watching."

"Sausalito paddle boarding. Looking for secret point breaks to ride the ferry wake."

"Had fun in our spot and had more push than expected. @scullbone, fair to say it wasn't fa ..."

"Had to look at everything a couple of times and then talk myself into it. Funk junk lump b ..."

"Here's hoping it gest better. So... how far away is October?"

am tempted to give it a fair minus, but that would probably be too generous. Shoulder high dumpers, a couple small faces, much more fun than expected. Did not drive around too much this morning but found a nice little spot that was working better than anticipated. Stoked given expectations.

Most of the beach was garbage but we found a fun spot with soft SH-HH waves. Some fun drops & small shoulders, sunny and almost windless. Given our expectations, it was stellar. Giving it a fair-, that's a 'spring rating'. Definitely worth it - we got lucky :-)

"Ugh, got beat down by the paddle out and was too weak to get some of the nice OH sets that ..."

"Yeah, goodness, that was *not* what I had expected. Happy to have dragged my a** out of be ..."

"#scullbone - if you paddled out where you normally surf, I'm impressed. That looked like a ..."

"#platypus, yup I just couldn't resist. Thought I saw a channel. Apparently I forgot wher ..."

"my first paddle out at 9 wasn't bad, but then i ate shit and got caught inside and couldn' ..."

Trust Surfline. Don't drag yourself out of bed, drive west and hope for the best. If you make it that far, under no circumstances should you brave the warbly conditions and seemingly weak sets you find. Because what are the chances those waves actually have some push and shape, offering up fun drops and a few turns? No one else is out there anyways. So sleep in, nobody would blame you. Definitely not me.

"why would you say its "fair" then?"

"Nice try at keeping a beach load of junk to yourself!"

"save sum junk for me 2. i need sum junk for my trunk."

"Wow! That was so clever!"

"Well, I liked it. "

It was definitely bigger than yesterday but the conditions were messier. The outside had some waist+ choppy sets but as the tide got higher they were barely breaking and left some crumbly windy wedgies on the inside. Was trying out my new 9'10" so I had fun.

crappy and flat

"I dunno, I'd say it was micro for sure, but glassy clean with plenty of little shoulders t ..."

"there were some occasional sections but they started to go bye bye around 1030ish as the t ..."

"right place right time....that kinda day. any glassy morning with some fun lil wedgers thi ..."

It was "Take Your Daughter's Board to the Beach Day" today. I grabbed my 3 yr old's sponge, @fatnewt grabbed his 6 yr old's 3' pink soft top, 'Pinkie'. I had no fins & had never been on a sponge before, and the sponge was tiny. Still managed to launch myself in to some waist-chest high waves. Super fun for what it was.

":-)"

Doesn't let you do poor-fair. Just me, a whale, a dophin using me as a fish herding backstop, and microdrizzlers. Grey whale about 100 yards out (wow) and dolphin's high-speed U-turn less than 10 feet in front of me were highlights - beats swmming at the Y!

"I found a few mushy waist-high ones. Stoked. "

Tiny Tasty Taters on Tap. Got up early and hit it with the loogie log. Old Jed Knoll that used to be 9' now 7 point something, with the weight of the Valdez, got me into waves a-plenty. Just hit two pastries from the box: apple and berry, and two pieces of bread as if the pastries were lonely. Yeah I'm a bad bad man for creating that menagerie, but whatever. I deserve it since I got up that early on a day of rest. So go surf, and then gain like a fat girl.

"Wide girls represent! -1 this like you're at cold stones!"

"tators could have been left in the oven a few minutes longer. "

"tommy tater reminder : bake at 420 degree's"

"also remember that cooking times vary at lower (tidal) elevations."

"I prefer cold pizza and chocolate milk. @Kelli, relax, it's just downtime conversation ..."

Went out pretty much at high tide and got what I expected. It looks to be shaping up now.

Pretty Inconsistent, most stuff wouldn't wall up and when it did, it tended to dump inside. Lots of happy teenagers and college-age folks though. And a veritable plethora of pigtailed Santa Cruz-looking girls. If you're, you know, into that.

"Yup, exacto. And, I took my log to my chin b/c I'm a dumbass."

"Dry hair paddle out and fun (if gutless) little waves."

"It got better! I didn't. Still, nice to see you guys. :)"

"I saw some fair spots, but opted for a fair- peak to myself. Dolphins and a couple of lon ..."

"@tracey, very good to see you & your orangeness @parkside, dyin'! Yup, exactly."

Some mighty fine waves out there + epic weather. BUT, the lineup was a goddamn circus. 20 guys taking off on the same wave while 20 guys paddling back out. I literally ran someone over on a take off who for whatever reason decided not to duck dive. This prompted another surfer to yell at the guy I just ran over to watch the F out. Man, I love hot San Francisco days, but the beach scene turns into SoCal stylee.

"Headline should read: "LindaMartians Migrate North""

"I was out from 11-2 and It wasnt crowded at all. The waves were a little hard to line up ..."

"a circus that's a fuckn understatement. (It was FUBAR) I swear every bloody person with a ..."

"^ u mad?"

"bro i mad. "