Did some Covid creedeling a found a few changes of scenery last week for the 1st time in months. Was able to post up, work, and kinda cherry pick my seshies based on conditions which were variable with some decent windows at the right tides. Thursday turned out to be funer than expected as it was kinda warbled and wonky most of the day and turned on for a few hours for some fun racey rights and sneaky lefts in the OH range on the sets. Stap-ish with quads was the call to get in early and generate speed as the rights were sectioney, but if you made them a lot of ground was covered often ending in a hole that was impossible to get back out from, so had to do the walk around a few times on those.
Friday paddled out mid am and was quite pleasant weather wise, warm sun beating down made it nice and toasty. Cant say the same about the waves thou, new swell had a fair amount of funk a lump in it and large sets were vaporizing the line up washing everyone in including at least one board from a broken leash. 3 walk arounds and managed a few sneaky two hit lefts, but ended up drinking more beers than waves ridden that day as it just deteriorated all afternoon. Finished work and decided on another change of scenery hoping a feature would filter the swells wonkyness into something more serviceable.
Up before dawn, coffee and breaky, but 1st check didn't look so good with some new binos Mom gave me for Xmas. Feet froze out in my gumboots as it was about 32 and I was watching for 15-20 min, so set up my heating system, watched hockey highlights, and got the feet nice and toasty. By mid am it had warmed up substantially, wind was a light offshore, and just a crispy and bright beaut of a morning
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Top of the tide had turned and waves seemed to have some nice punch to them on the suck out esp when hitting the inside bar. A lot of the sets were walled, but there were really fun peaky cross ups in the mix and was able to get into a rythym away from the main pack which looked like about 20 heads and prob 50 spread out. Left corners were throwing barrels to pull into and pretty rippable rights. A couple buddies paddled out unexpectedly and one of them got a roll in on a left set wave that threw square on the inside bar. I was too deep and our other buddy had gone on a close out prior and saw the entire wave claiming best barrel he's seen in a long time. Seshed for 3 plus hours until the lower tide kinda killed it, went searching for dungies to bring home as peace offerings for the wifey, and headed back to town pretty sarfed out.
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Routine is a vampire. Manu Chao-