tracey

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Thursday 10am - Linda Mar, poor surfing

Teeeny tiny, but clean during the early morning at Linda Mar. Waist high if you're lucky, but lots of fun with patience, a longboard, and a good sense of humor. Pretty long rides for how small the waves were. Feels like this summer is going to be all lefts at Lindy. You shortboarders might want to roam around San Mateo county further south, Lindy was pretty much logs only. Fair-- clean if you like small waves, but outright poor if you're sporting anything thinner than 3 inches and shorter than a 9ft log.

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I'm back on lake Michigan for a few days. It's been hot and humid. Any corn-fed midwesterner knows long hot days mean thunderstorms. A BIG storm system came through about an hour ago with gusts reported almost up to 100mph and hail up to quarter inch around. This is a photo my brother took as beach goers fled the approaching front.

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Caught 180° South at the Victoria tonight. Sure, it's adventure porn and not surf porn but it was an all around good time. Funny, beautifully shot, nice storytelling, and lots of breathtaking places along the pacific coast.

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Picaresque is one of my favorite surf movies. The clips on youtube and vimeo don't really do the film justice. They kind of make it seem like it's your typical "oooo isn't longboarding so pretty and mellow" movie when the finished work actually has a ton of energy, great music and some sick longboarding, single fin, and fish surfing.

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Picked up a little sunset session at the Jetty. Water got pretty glassy but the small wave/high tide combo made picking off waves a lot of effort for a warbly swampy reward. Friendly folks getting in some stellar rides on the set waves tho. Little more oomph or consistency and it would have ranked fair. As always, happy to be out, extra happy to sneak in a second session to round out the day.

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The 10th Annual Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards will be given away tonight in California, in seven different categories: Ride of the Year, Biggest Wave, Monster Paddle, Monster Tube, Verizon Wipeout, Surfline Performance and Billabong Girls Performance. It has been an epic, El Nino fueled year with a mind-blowing list of nominees.

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11:30-3:30 at the Jetty. Knee to Shoulder high peeling little waves. Great sunshine. A little cleaner and it would have been good. Fair+ but lots of fun and beaut weather.

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Checked 38th, blown out. Checked the Hook, it was working but disorganized and windy as hell. Cowells was relatively empty but sporting Knee to Head high disorganized all over the map waves. Windy, choppy, confusing. Surfed from 12:30-4. Around the lowest of low tide it started to clean up and by 4 it was looking like a kind of hungover version of it's usual self. I got a few good long face rides in, but mostly long aimless sort of rights trying to stay with a shoulder that jacked and faded like it wasn't sure if it wanted me to ride it or not. Sun came out, made it worth the beating.

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