1pm-230pm OB. jekyll and hyde situation. lefts were steep and hollowish and fast and broke hard and i wasn't enough of a rodeo star to manage them. rights were smooth and clean and pleasurable, and my desire for smooth & clean pleasure prevailed; i got lotsa rights. wind was moderate sideshore/offshore, sun was out, and it was just me and the gulls, and a few heads in the distance. better than i thought it'd be --- kind of the theme for the week, for me.

"dude that is so funny because a few of my lefts were leaving me with that sinking feeling. ..."

"Reading this dialogue makes me hate having to work all day. Glad you all had a nice time ..."

"LOL piss! sweet take."

"Glad you got some! On the cams I watched it get better and better until the sun went down. ..."

"yep. burning the candle at both ends and none of it in the water these days. got to love t ..."

1030am-1230pm. I love OB --- for 2+ hours, there was not even another soul within earshot, save for the dolphins, as I feasted on glassy head-high peaks at a mysto-bar that for whatever reason, was choosing to break fairly consistently despite what should have been a suffocating 6+ high tide. Sunny, windless, glassy, gorgeous day, and plenty of nice rides. Who would'a known? Stoked.

"+1 I love this report. Stoked for you!"

"just outta curiousity - how much foam did you bring & was it soft (or throwing)? My guess ..."

"Hey Platypus - I felt perfectly equipped on a 6'4" pumpkin seed; it was a bit on the softe ..."

"emptee and fun."

"very nice report. i was out from 3:30 to 5 and it was pretty marginal. waves got better as ..."

I thought I'd sneak in a little dawn patrol session this morning - but instead brothers and sisters - I am now learning, as I witness this lamentable crumble-jumble before me, that my purpose is to suggest that you all save the gas, sleep, or whatever other exhaustible resource that you might have burned through, in order to take a look for yourselves. Any one who'd coax a fun session out of this crap is a more optimistic person than I - and I tend on the optimistic end of the spectrum. Oh well. I tried.

"Yesterday evening's session was pretty uninspiring. I managed to get one really fun left o ..."

Dismal. One poor guy getting tossed about the crumbly whitecapped windslop, and that's about the extent of it. Gonna head a little bit south and see if there's anything on offer. Agree with yesterday's favorable Santa Cruz reports, but what wasn't mentioned (perhaps because it's a given) is that by 9am or so, each tight little peak had about quadruple its reasonable carrying capacity of surfers on it, and when the waist-chest high rides would finally come in, we'd all be jockeying desperately to be the one lucky taker. There was one crazy chick in a bikini, though - that was nuts.

"Wow on a Wed :( Get to work people...oh yeah...right :("

"That chick in a bikini was out yesterday too. It's warm and all, but dang."

"She's probably Hawaiian :) (not kidding)"

"I saw the bikini girl in SC yesterday, but I didn't see the surfers, must be cuz some spot ..."

"thanks for the accurate report on SC crowds, makes me feel way better about not being down ..."

Well. Linda Mar was pumping out in glassy, offshore, machine-like consistency... the only problem is that it was consistently nothing but close-outs. Mind-shatteringly frustrating, because I spent a good three hours in the water, thinking the whole time to myself, that I'm gonna catch it awesome when the tide fills in... it'll be here soon... any time now... aw jeez, throw me a little shoulder or two... come on please... aaaargh! Shoulda "driven south" or joined Eduardo420 in Santa Cruz for some of that "good"ness. Oh well. Live and (don't) learn.

"haha, nice. "

Mostly pretty sloppy shore dump and/or closeouts, though there are a surprising number of guys out there, some of whom are squeezing some blood out of today's stone. Sun's shining, but otherwise not much to get excited about.

"proving yet again that shit waves and fun arent mutually exclusive ;)"

"yup and yup. Too much of the following: tide, swell, surfers. Too few of the following: c ..."

"Interesting. Schay Schay Schaeler says SMLM "Mostly clean walled-out lines on tap this mor ..."

"hahahah schayschay needs to GET IN :) I want what he's having if he's really going there. ..."

"I wonder if he just wakes up, checks the cam and writes the report? Still though, it wasn' ..."

Summery slop-chop-crap, under gorgeous summery sunny skies. Great day to work on that awkward wetsuit-midneck surf-farmer tan, or get some paddling exercise sampling the crap-platter up and down the various portions of the beach. Deservedly uncrowded. I caught enough anemic shoulders to call it a day.

"Yeah yesterday I was all "uh oh...I remember this" :( Damn. Future gull says things may ..."