After spending a couple days beside a barrel (bucket), it was nice to spend a little time *in*side a barrel (sorta). Sunshine, OH and an easy paddle out was a nice way to be welcomed back after a nasty bout of food poisoning. Felt like I was gonna die at one point. Some soft ones and some hollow ones where I was. Not too crowded. Managed to actually paddle my weak ass into one of the hollow ones for that little cover up. Surfing cures. Superduperstoked.

"It actually looked like SoCal out there. Or a Justin Bieber concert. Frickin' crowded."

Some fun waves for a crowded Sunday morning. Although, while there were a lot of people, most of them were bunched in a couple of spots. I found a nice takeoff that was delivering some peeling rights that sure looked like they were going to be lefts, but went right anyway and linked into a zippy reform that took me down the beach quite a ways. It only worked on the wave after the set wave, but I did get it a handful of times to call it consistent for SMLM. WH, maybe CH. Water was really clear. Last year at this time it was the gurchy color of mustard, if I remember correctly.

Picked off some okay KH-WH stuff. Not a whole lot of consistency. Low expectations helped me out quite a bit and the sunshine helped, too. Some dipshit tied their dog to a rock or a log on shore and the poor confused pup got loose and was running all over the highway. Cars stopping with me trying to grab it. A guy helped catch the dog and someone alerted the dude in the water. He paddled in to get the poor thing. Kook move, dude. Not cool. Other than that, I had a Fair minus time in Poor plus conditions.

"You summed it up. Not much consistency at all. Was out from 1:30-3:30 and waiting & waitin ..."

Pretty junky out there. A few drop and wash rides (mostly flop and wash for me with a sore arm) and one dribbling reform that I milked for a slow push. Not very exciting, but something.

CH to SH with some good energy coming through. Definitely some good ones here and there. Some whompers to keep you honest. Pretty fun. Holiday crowd in full effect. Bring your navigational skills.

WH maybe CH on the bigger ones. Mostly closies, but there are some good ones out there. Hunted down a left all to myself that held up for some decent rides in between the drop and wash. After 10 days outta the water, it was pretty fun stuff. Really easy take offs and not much consequence made for a good day to test out the hurt parts. There's a crowd, but only on the one end. Explore a little.

"aye early morning was fairly decent. after about 11 lindy started showing her true self. c ..."

"oops, meant to post this in ob."

"im-white, you aren't the guy on the log who rode a right all the way in to the fast food j ..."

"no i wish that was me =/ i was on a hybrid and rode it from near the fast food joint to th ..."