Watched the waves this morning and was about to just head straight to work (yet another day) when somebody pulled up next to me and got his wetsuit out. That gave me the little motivational push I had needed. Glad I paddled out - it was as bad as it looked but I got a couple of short rides and in general have yet to see the day where after a session I feel it was not worth it.

Thanks a lot to the guy just going for it and dragging me along.

Thought I'd be smart, get up very early so to hit the waves before the tide floods it all out. What I found was crappy conditions and a tire-ripping curb. Back now with dirty fingers and dry hair. Maybe in the afternoon - pack your spare tires...

"Lost: tire and good waves. Found: One leather composite Spalding basketball by the shower ..."

"cold, jumbled up, mushy, and cold. still better than coffee!"

"Caught some waves, made some drops, got beat up, had some awful paddles. Exercise. @jak ..."

Well, they were waves after all. Good to be back...

"gah completely skunked by the funk. If you must splash around, then I guess it's somethin ..."

"There's energy out there, but I'd recommend heading south a ways, or at least wait for a c ..."

"Looked pretty bad from the lot, but every once in a while a south set would give a long le ..."

Cleaner than yesterday, bigger than yesterday. Low wind, relatively easy paddle for the size. Some peaks are pushing consistent overhead waves. That said, it is super hard to stay at any given peak with the current so never mind :)
If you have to be somewhere in time, add 5min of walking down the beach to every 10min of surfing.

"After driving the beach, picked the cleanest, albeit not largest spot. Still found it kerj ..."

"It was a jumbly mess, but I had three fun ones that put me in a good enough mood. It was g ..."

"Um, yeah, you definitely got the ride of the day."

"Caught one. Found some booties (not the Too Short type) up against the curb around stairwa ..."

"First real size of the summer. Total jumble of swell types, and a tough combo of tractor ..."

A little bigger, not clean but appeared to be getting better. Might turn out to be a fun day...
Good paddle training and some rare open faces allowing for some nice wide arcs on my brand-new single-fin :)

About shoulder high, soft on the outside but a couple of very heavy, plunging waves on some spots on the inside bars closing very fast but offering some speedy rides if you are quick enough.
Water was very cold this morning - almost paddled back in to get my gloves. Current pushes up north as to be expected with the incoming tide...

"Yep, good times out there. Outside kinda shut down, so the inner zippers were the only ga ..."

"Pretty fun longboard conditions on the outside, especially if you could connect sections t ..."

"Only got to spend 30 minutes in the water thanks to about 2 hours of bowel malfunction ava ..."

"Coliseum fight in there huh. You need some more sheen tiger blood for the #WINNER"

"found some hollow fast sections about 8 a.m., and preceded to make lemons out of lemonade. ..."

Warbly, sectiony and fogged in this morning. Took my fish out (even though it looked total crap from the lot) and was surprised to get a lot of (mostly short and unspectacular) rides - actually really enjoyed it. Waves were funky with a mix of fat, crumbly shoulders, occasional steep (almost hollow) sections and a bunch of closeouts - about shoulder high.
When I left it started to clear up and also seemed to get a little cleaner so I'd expect it to turn into a 'fair' day.

"yeah I had some fun. I think you nailed the conditions :)"

"Ditto, ditto. Happy to be out on my own little fishy. Made some drops, missed some drops, ..."