THE Surf Report- Early Edition

All tricks, no treats. 

SURF:

Unbelievable offshores this week (and no fires to speak of fortunately) but not much swell.

If you were lucky (or smart), you could have picked off a chest high set here and there. But for the rest of us, we were left with perfect little waist high rollers the past few days. The Pacific seems to be in a funk right now and we're left with small surf again this weekend. Look for waist high surf from the SW/NW the next few days and nice weather- with maybe a return of low clouds/fog in the nights/mornings on Sunday. Water temps are a comfortable 65 degrees and here's tide and sun information this weekend: 

• Friday/Saturday:
• Sunrise: 7:07 AM  
• Sunset: 5:58 PM  

• AND DON'T FORGET TO SET YOUR CLOCK'S BACK ON SATURDAY NIGHT FOR THE END OF DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME!!! (Did I get your attention?)
• Sunday:
• 6:08 AM (Dawn patrol anyone)?
• 4:56 PM (Forget about surfing after work now.)

• And tides this weekend are:
• 3’ at sunrise
• 4.5’ after lunch
• 2' at sunset

FORECAST:

Still no real storms on the forecast charts. 

We might get a little waist high bump from NW windswell around Tuesday and waist high+ NW wind/ground swell on Thursday (oh boy) but nothing to make you break out the step up yet. 

Further out, models don't look that promising but we may get waist high NW groundswell around the 11th (better in SD) and hopefully some waist to chest high SW around the 13th (better towards the OC). Long story short, the storms in the North Pacific haven't kicked into gear yet for us here and the southern hemisphere is in hibernation until March. Make sure to check out Twitter/North County Surf  if anything changes between now and then. 

BEST BET: 

Hopefully Thursday with waist high+ NW or longer term (if you can wait that long).

WEATHER:

Thank our lucky stars we didn't have any major fires down here in San Diego County the past few days. The offshores went to waste anyway with the small surf. The winds are switching today and we're back to our normal sea breeze. As mentioned above, look for low clouds to return by Sunday and into next week. Temps will be a pleasant 70 during the day and 50 at night. And no rain in sight unfortunately. Good news for all you snowsurfers out there though; Montana's already got a few feet of the fluffy white stuff which means the Rockies and Northern California can't be that far behind. 

NEWS OF THE WEEK:

With the absence of a strong El Nino or La Nina this winter, I've almost forgotten what an average winter feels like here in Southern California. Either we've had big surf/lots of rain or small surf/lots of sun the past decade. So what's on tap for the coming winter? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) put out their seasonal forecast recently and had this to say about CA and the rest of the U.S.:

Warmer-than-average temperatures are forecast for much of the U.S. this winter according to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. Although below-average temperatures are not favored, cold weather is anticipated and some areas could still experience a colder-than-average winter. Wetter-than-average weather is most likely across the Northern Tier of the U.S. during winter, which extends from December through February.

While the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate pattern often influences the winter, neutral conditions are in place this year and expected to persist into the spring. In the absence of El Nino or La Nina, long-term trends become a key predictor for the outlook, while other climate patterns, such as the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Arctic Oscillation (AO), will likely play a larger role in determining winter weather. For example, the AO influences the number of arctic air masses that intrude into the U.S., but its predictability is limited to a couple weeks.

“Without either El Nino or La Nina conditions, short-term climate patterns like the Arctic Oscillation will drive winter weather and could result in large swings in temperature and precipitation,” said Mike Halpert, deputy director of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.

This spring saw significant and historic flooding across the central U.S. that impacted nearly 17 million people. However, during the summer and early fall, drought rapidly developed across much of the South, with drought conditions now present across approximately 20% of the country. 

Temperature:

• The greatest likelihood for warmer-than-normal conditions are in Alaska and Hawaii, with more modest probabilities for above-average temperatures spanning large parts of the remaining lower 48 from the West (California) across the South and up the eastern seaboard.
• The Northern Plains, Upper Mississippi Valley, and the western Great Lakes have equal chances for below-, near- or above-average temperatures.
• No part of the U.S. is favored to have below-average temperatures this winter. 

Precipitation:

• Wetter-than-average conditions are most likely in Alaska and Hawaii this winter, along with portions of the Northern Plains, Upper Mississippi Valley, the Great Lakes and parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
• Drier-than-average conditions are most likely for Louisiana, parts of Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma as well areas of northern and central California.
• Southern California looks to be average for precipitation  
• The remainder of the U.S. falls into the category of equal chances for below-, near-, or above-average precipitation.

Drought:

• Abnormally dry conditions are present across much of the Southern U.S., with areas of the most severe drought in the Four Corners region of the Southwest, central Texas and parts of the Southeast.
• Drought is expected to improve in portions of the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Alaska and Hawaii, while persisting in central Texas and the Southwest.  
• Drought development is expected to occur in parts of central California.  

In summary for Southern California, look for roughly 11" of rain, slightly above temperatures, and average surf. 

PIC OF THE WEEK:

Trick or Treat? Trick: it's not today but if you're good, maybe Santa will bring this treat by Xmas. But hopefully before then. For more amazing winter time pics, make sure to check out Mark McInnis' work here.

Keep Surfing, 

Michael W. Glenn

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SURF:

Just cruising along this week. Fun waves towards Monday (with strong NW winds in the afternoon) has been replaced by clean conditions all day and small surf. For Friday and Saturday, we'll be on repeat with small waist high sets and Santa Ana conditions. 

We did though have a little storm off Antarctica a few days ago and we'll see inconsistent chest high sets on Sunday along with a slight bump in NW ground/windswell. Water temps are holding in the mid-60's and here's more numbers for you mathematicians: 

• Sunrise: 7:00 AM (for comparison's sake, the sun comes up around 5:30 AM on June 20th)
• Sunset: 6:06 PM (for comparison's sake, the sun sets around 8:00 PM on the June 20th)

• 6’ at breakfast
• 0’ around 2pm
• 3' at sunset

FORECAST:

The SW/NW is short lived on Sunday and we're back to waist high surf Monday through Thursday. 

Models show a medium sized storm forming off the Aleutians this weekend though and we may start to see chest high NW late on Halloween into next Friday- along with Santa Ana conditions again. After that, it's back to being quiet in the Pacific. Make sure to check out Twitter/North County Surf if anything changes between now and then. 

BEST BET: 

Sunday with new fun SW/NW or next Friday with another NW. 

WEATHER:

Late October weather is right on schedule. Did you really think we'd get through the fall without Santa Ana conditions? Of course you didn't. Amazing beach weather the past few days with temps near 90 and plenty of sun. Friday and Saturday look to be the same with only a slight cool down to start the week. We should see low 70's by Tuesday and lots of sun again. Models show another Santa Ana kicking in again towards Thursday- but cooler temps than we had today. Long story short, plenty of sun the next week. 

NEWS OF THE WEEK:

I'm sure you've heard by now of the massive asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula millions years ago and wiped out all the dinosaurs (until John Hammond brought them all back to life of course in the now defunct Jurassic Park amusement park). But no one knew of it's impacts to our oceans and the animals beneath. Until now that is. Various media outlets this week reported on a recent discovery that shed light on the subject. Here's what they had to say:

When a huge 6 mile wide asteroid slammed into the surface of the Earth about 66 million years ago, it left life on the planet in ruins. The impact caused the last mass extinction event, spelling the end for the dinosaurs. Scientists have long debated exactly how the impact ended the reign of the terrible lizards, with many theories pointing to a disruption of the Earth's climate. New evidence suggests that this is, at least partially, true and that the massive collision caused rapid acidification of the oceans, driving ecological collapse.

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, examined the Geulhemmerberg Cave in the Netherlands, the Brazos River in Texas, deep-sea drill cores and Owl Creek in Mississippi to paint a picture of the immediate aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact. The research team suggests that before the asteroid hit the Earth, the oceans were not increasing in acidity.

But afterward, there was a rapid decrease in pH, making the oceans significantly more acidic. At the Geulhemmerberg cave, researchers found the fossilized remains of tiny plankton known as foraminifera.

"In this cave, an especially thick layer of clay from the immediate aftermath of the impact accumulated, which is really quite rare," said Michael Henehan, a geoscientist and first author of the study, in a press release. "Because so much sediment was laid down there at once, it meant we could extract enough fossils to analyze, and we were able to capture the transition."

The fossils were dated to the asteroid impact and the team showed the event was so potent it prevented the plankton from building calcium carbonate shells. This, they reason, would have caused the plankton to die out and the web of life to deteriorate. Notably, life in the ocean's upper layers would die out, disrupting the carbon cycle. According to the data, it was several million years before bouncing back.

In contrast to the new study, scientists also believe volcanism may have contributed to the downfall of the great lizards. Earlier this year, two studies in Science showed increased levels of volcanic activity from the Deccan Traps, massive volcanoes that started erupting around 400,000 years before the Chicxulub impact and could have expelled enough lava to circle the Earth.

PIC OF THE WEEK:

Wave Pools: 20 waves an hour. Chicama: 20 waves a minute. Enough said. 

Keep Surfing, 

Michael W. Glenn

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THE Surf Report- Early Edition

By the time you're readying this, it may be too late. 

SURF:

Not much surf to start the week but we did get a little boost from the SW on Wednesday and a touch of NW today. 

As you're reading this, a good NW is filling in tonight and sets are shoulder high with head high sets in SD. The problem of course is that's it's pitch black right now, and the best swell we've had in awhile is going unridden. The good news is, if you're reading this report late on Thursday night, you've set your alarm for 6 AM on Friday and you're going to get the tail end of the SW/NW swells. Look for shoulder high waves early Friday, and back to chest high+ Friday afternoon. For Saturday, we've got a continuation of the NW and the SW will have faded by then. Still should see fun chest high waves. 

On Sunday, we get a bump from the SW again with more NW and we're back to chest high surf. All in all, a fun weekend of surf but Friday morning will be biggest. Here's the tides and sunset for the weekend:

• Sunrise: 6:55 AM
• Sunset: 6:13 PM

• 3’ at sunrise
• 5’ at lunch
• 1' at sunset

FORECAST:

After a fun weekend of surf, we'll have lingering chest high combo swell early Monday and then it's all downhill from there. Look for waist high+ NW/SW swell most of next week. 

Further out it doesn't look much better either but things can change in an instant of course. Make sure to check out Twitter/North County Surf for updates! 

BEST BET: 

Friday morning! Get on it! Or smaller but still fun on Sunday with offshores in the AM. 

WEATHER:

Typical fall weather is on tap this weekend as we've got low clouds on Friday morning, turning to sun in the afternoon, and temps near 70 degrees mid-day. For Saturday, the clouds clear out as high pressure starts to build and plenty of sun. For Sunday, look for offshore winds to blow in the morning and temps in the mid 70's. The sun sticks around until at least Tuesday with temps peaking around 75 at the coast. For the 2nd half of next week, weak low pressure moves by to the N and it's a return of low clouds/fog for nights/mornings. 

NEWS OF THE WEEK:

With the rainy season headed our way (get those roofs fixed), I thought it would be a good idea this week to discuss just what exactly is rain. And yes, it is drops of water falling from the sky (or Zeus crying, depending on who you ask), but it's much more complicated than that. (And for your snowboarders out there, what makes snow, hail, and sleet)? I'll let the experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explain:

All these forms of water don’t fall out of a clear, blue sky. You need clouds. But what makes clouds?

Clouds form from water or ice that has evaporated from Earth’s surface, or from plants that give off water and oxygen as a product of photosynthesis. When it evaporates—that is, rises from Earth’s surface into the atmosphere- water is in the form of a gas- water vapor. Water vapor turns into clouds when it cools and condenses- that is, turns back into liquid water or ice. In order to condense, the water vapor must have a solid particle to adhere to. This solid “seed” may be a speck of dust or pollen, or a drop of water or crystal of ice. Dew is water vapor that has condensed back onto Earth’s surface—on grass or a car’s windshield, for example.

In the cloud (a real cloud, not a computing cloud), with more water condensing onto other water droplets, the droplets grow. When they get too heavy to stay suspended in the cloud, even with updrafts within the cloud, they fall to Earth as rain. If the air in the cloud is below the freezing point (32 °F or 0 °C), ice crystals form; if the air all the way down to the ground is also freezing or below, you get snow. However, if the layers of atmosphere within the cloud, and between the cloud and the ground, alternate between warmer than freezing and colder than freezing, you get other kinds of precipitation.

For example, if a snowflake falls through a warmer part of the cloud it can get coated with water, then frozen again as it’s tossed back into a colder part. It can go round and round, adding more and more layers of new ice. When it’s too heavy to stay up, what finally comes down is hail. If the updrafts in a thunder cloud are strong enough, the hail stones can get pretty big before they become too heavy to stay up. Hail stones can range from pea size to golf ball size, and up! A new record for the largest hailstone ever was set in 2010! It fell on July 23, in Vivian, South Dakota. It was 8 inches in diameter, 18.62 inches in circumference, and weighed 1.93 pounds. If I wasn't already worried about coconuts falling on my head, this is a new threat I don't need. 

Hail can cause a lot of damage to buildings, cars, and especially crops. However, freezing rain can be even worse. Freezing rain occurs when the conditions are just "right." Falling snow encounters, first a layer of warmer air, which melts the snowflakes, and then, just above the surface of Earth, a very cold layer, which makes the liquid water “super-cooled,” ready to freeze up at the slightest hint of encouragement. Now, when the super-cooled 

rain hits colder-than-freezing ground and objects near the ground (such as roads, trees, and power lines)—snap! Just like that, the about-to-freeze rain turns to ice. The ice coats everything with a thin, sometimes transparent, frozen film. As more rain falls, the coating becomes thicker. The ice can become so thick and heavy that tree limbs snap and fall across power lines, or the power lines themselves just sag and sag until they snap.

Clouds are the key element of the water cycle, since they are the transporters that move water from one place on Earth to another. They are also important in determining how much of the Sun’s energy is absorbed and trapped in the atmosphere. They are thus very important in altering the temperature of the air and Earth’s surface. The warmer the air, the more water it can hold. The warmer the oceans, the faster water evaporates from them. Surface winds also increase evaporation. (Notice that after a rainstorm, the road dries faster if it is windy.) And the more water in the air, the more the sun’s energy is trapped, making things still warmer.

So now you know, just in time for the rainy/snow/hail/sleet season. 

PIC OF THE WEEK:

Keep Tahoe Blue!  

Keep Surfing, 

Michael W. Glenn

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The anticipation is killing me! 

SURF:

Had a little SW earlier in the week then some NW windswell today, which has already passed it's peak. Good news is that's there's surf coming (finally). Bad news is that it's not this weekend. High pressure is in control today, creating offshore Santa Ana winds, but there's nothing in the water to ride. 

Look for mainly knee high surf this weekend with waist high sets. If you are dying to get out in the water and paddle around, make sure to hit it early before strong onshores kick in by mid-day. As far as water temps go, looks like we're starting our slow slide towards winter as temps are now in the 65-67 degree range. But with the Santa Ana condition today, air temps will at least be close to 80- with similar temps Sunday. So get out there and hang at the beach this weekend! And here's the sun and tides for the next few days:

• Sunrise: 6:50 AM
• Sunset: 6:20 PM

• 4’ at sunrise
• 5’ mid-morning
• 1' mid-afternoon
• 3' at sunset

FORECAST:

Patience is a virtue. Monday starts off small THEN we start to see surf late Tuesday into Monday. 

First up is a late season tropical storm which models show forming this weekend. That will give us fun chest high+ surf late Tuesday which will be met with NW windswell. That will hold into Wednesday with less consistent chest high surf on Thursday. 

On it's heels is our first NW of the season from a storm also taking shape this weekend off the Aleutians. Friday should have chest high surf again with shoulder high sets in SD. Saturday will have shoulder high sets. 

Charts also show a late season storm off Antarctica this weekend which will send shoulder high sets our way for Sunday into Monday with slightly bigger sets in the OC. In summary: Tropical surf, Southern Hemi swell, and Aleutian juice. When it rains, it pours. Make sure to check out Twitter/North County Surf for updates! 

BEST BET: 

2nd half of next week, everywhere in Southern California. 

WEATHER:

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard about the red flag warnings today from the National Weather Service. Our 1st real Santa Ana wind event of the season is upon us and fortunately, should only last 1 day, with temps near 80 along the coast. Saturday will have lighter winds and great beach weather with temps in the mid-70's and plenty of sun. Sunday looks nice too but the low clouds may return and last into much of next week. Temps at the beaches though will still be in the low 70's. 

NEWS OF THE WEEK:

There's been a lot written the past 40 years or so about man's inadvertent (or deliberate depending on who you ask) slow destruction of our environment, and in particular, the oceans. Each year, as humans emit billions of metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, nearly a third of the emissions ends up in the ocean, changing the chemical balance of the water. And as the climate changes, the ocean is also absorbing almost all of the Earth’s extra heat, melting ice that creates sea level rise, making the water uninhabitable for marine life, and changing the planet’s weather patterns. Fast Company reported this week that a new report from the IPCC, the UN panel that studies climate change, lays out exactly what’s at stake for the ocean as a result—and for humans, all of whom rely on the ocean either directly or indirectly. Here's what they had to say:

“What comes out of this report is that it’s going to hit us in so many ways,” says Mark Spalding, senior marine scientist for The Nature Conservancy, one of the organizations that contributed to the report. The litany of potential disasters from a changing ocean is horrifying: As the warming water melts ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, the sea level rises each year, putting hundreds of millions of people who live in low-lying coastal areas at risk of flooding. A warmer ocean supercharges hurricanes. Marine heatwaves can boost toxic algae and close fisheries. As the water absorbs CO2, it becomes more acidic, posing another threat to coral reefs. And all these impacts can exacerbate each other—coral reefs, for example, “play the role of a sea wall,” says Spalding. “They sit offshore like a barrier and they break waves before the waves get to land.” As storms get stronger, this natural protection is being lost at the same time.

For marine ecosystems, these threats are piling up on top of other human impacts. “A lot of the other damage we’ve done to habitats is making the threat of climate change worse,” he says. “We overfish, we damage coral reefs, we pollute. This idea that humans are adding to the problem comes out quite clearly in this report. The flip side to that is that we can do something about it. If we can reduce some of these parallel problems, we can at least buy ourselves some time to deal with the climate change piece of this.” The Nature Conservancy, for example, is working on projects to restore coral reefs and other marine ecosystems, as in a project in the Caribbean that created an insurance policy for coral reefs; hotels in the area pay a premium each month so that if a storm hits, the funding can immediately be used to rebuild the reefs to protect the hotels. Other projects are restoring mangroves, a coastal ecosystem that is uniquely good at sucking carbon from the air.

The biggest change that needs to happen, of course, is a move to a zero-carbon economy. “What happens depends on what decisions we make now and in the next few years,” says Spalding. “Do we follow a business-as-usual path? Or do we really knock it down and try to aim for [warming of just] 1.5 degrees?” The difference between limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, instead of 2 degrees, might sound small. But it’s actually huge. “It’s startlingly different between one and the other. The lowest emission scenario is still talking about just one meter of sea level rise in a couple of hundred years’ time. With a high-emissions scenario, we’re talking about multiple meters of sea level rise, which frankly is curtains for entire nations—even wealthy nations and cities that are on the coast.”

PIC OF THE WEEK:

Random empty surf spot #GTR45-A. I dare you to find it. And if you do? Congrats! You get to surf this spot all to yourself. I think that's fair. 

Keep Surfing, 

Michael W. Glenn

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THE Surf Report- Early Edition

If you like waist high and clean, this is your week! 

SURF:

Had fun surf earlier in the week which was met with killer early morning conditions. The swells have since tapered off and we're left with waist high SW. 

For Friday, we get a slight boost from NW windswell late in the day, along with a touch more SW groundswell, but only expect waist high+ surf around here again. Saturday is about the same and Sunday is back to waist high. We're in a holding pattern around here unfortunately. But water temps are still holding to 68-70! Here's tides and sunrise for this weekend:

• Sunrise: 6:45 AM
• Sunset: 6:30 PM

• 3’ at sunrise
• 4.5’ late afternoon 

FORECAST:

Hope you've taken up a hobby 'cause we don't have much on tap for the coming week. Monday through Wednesday starts off small with just waist high SW/NW again, then we get a small boost from the SW late Wednesday with a touch of NW windswell on Thursday. 

Best case scenario is to see inconsistent chest high sets by Thursday. Maybe a hurricane can pop up between now and then? 

We've still 8 weeks officially left in the 2019 eastern Pacific hurricane season! 

BEST BET: 

Either late Friday/early Saturday with small combo swell or next Thursday with chest high combo swell. 

WEATHER:

The lack of our surf is at least being made up by our great weather. We’ve got a weak trough moving by to our N on Friday which will give us patchy low clouds, then weak high pressure starts to build on Saturday for more sun and temps in the low 70’s along the coast. Temps peak on Monday to the mid 70’s then low clouds return for the 2nd half of next week. In summary- no rain or fire weather in our immediate future. 

NEWS OF THE WEEK:

Here’s some stats about the ocean to make you sound like an Oceanographer: 

• Ninety percent of all volcanic activity occurs in the oceans. In 1993, scientists located the largest known concentration of active volcanoes on the sea floor in the South Pacific. This area, the size of New York state, hosts 1,133 volcanic cones and sea mounts. Two or three could erupt at any moment.
• The highest tides in the world are at the Bay of Fundy, which separates New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. At some times of the year the difference between high and low tide is 53’, the equivalent of a 5 story building. In comparison, tides here in Southern California only fluctuate 9’ at most. And if you’ve been to Hawaii, you know it only fluctuates about 2’!
• The oceans cover 71 percent of the Earth's surface and contain 97 percent of the Earth's water. Less than 1 percent is fresh water, and 2-3 percent is contained in glaciers and ice caps.
• Earth's longest mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge, which winds around the globe from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic, skirting Africa, Asia and Australia, and crossing the Pacific to the west coast of North America. It is four times longer than the Andes, Rockies, and Himalayas combined.
• Canada has the longest coastline of any country, at 56,453 miles or around 15 percent of the world's 372,384 miles of coastlines.
• A slow cascade of water beneath the Denmark Strait sinks 2.2 miles, more than 3.5 times farther than Venezuela's Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall on land.
• El Niño, a periodic shift of warm waters from the western to eastern Pacific Ocean, has dramatic effects on climate worldwide. In 1982-1983, the most severe El Niño of the century created droughts, crop failures, fires, torrential rains, floods, landslides--total damages were estimated at more than $8 billion.
• At the deepest point in the ocean the pressure is more than 8 tons per square inch, or the equivalent of one person trying to support 50 jumbo jets.
• At 39 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of almost all of the deep ocean is only a few degrees above freezing.
• If mined, all the gold suspended in the world's seawater would give each person on Earth 9 pounds; so I’m headed down to the beach right now. 
• In 1958, the United States Coast Guard icebreaker East Wind measured the world's tallest known iceberg off western Greenland. At 550 feet it was only 5 feet 6 inches shorter than the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
• Although Mount Everest, at 29,028 feet, is often called the tallest mountain on Earth, Mauna Kea, an inactive volcano on the island of Hawaii, is actually taller. Only 13,796 feet of Mauna Kea stands above sea level, yet it is 33,465 feet tall if measured from the ocean floor to its summit.
• If the ocean's total salt content were dried, it would cover the continents to a depth of 5 feet.
• Undersea earthquakes and other disturbances cause tsunamis, or great waves. The largest recorded tsunami measured 210 feet above sea level when it reached Siberia's Kamchatka Peninsula in 1737.
• The Antarctic Ice Sheet is almost twice the size of the United States. And rapidly shrinking unfortunately. 

PIC OF THE WEEK:

This spot is right in the heart of a town called Crown of the Sea. Amazing to think it's going unridden in this photo with literally 10,000 surfers within walking distance to this spot. It's also illegal to surf this wave and the fine is a few hundred dollars. I guess the surfer in this pic figures it's cheaper than a day at the Surf Ranch. 

Keep Surfing, 

Michael W. Glenn
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