Two bad surfs...

I had been hearing all day Thursday about how wonderful the surf was... so I went out as soon as I got off work. It SUCKED. I went straight out from the trail and was going to get some lefts on the middle peak at Cox... but as soon as I got out, I realized there was actually nothing out there... so I went further in and further left, and then after not catching one wave, I came up almost right next to the rocks in the corner. Blargh! The rip was so strong it took all of two seconds for me to get from the middle to the corner. It sucked... and sucked me right into the rocks, even.

The report said it was going to suck all weekend (super short period)... but this morning, when I went out to walk the dog, it looked okay. I wasn't going to go, because I have a pile and a half of school work and several piles of work work and so many piles of business work that I wasn't going to go out unless I knew it was going to be good. Two bad surfs would just be demoralizing.

But then I talked to RR and he said I should definitely go out... being one to always take RR's advice (perhaps too consistently and too seriously), I went. The parking lots were full... both of them! Even the crappy scary one. There were a lot of kooks everywhere, so I wondered whether or not it actually was good or whether it was just weekend traffic. I ran into people whose opinion I trust, and was told that it really was good... and that I didn't need any gloves.

So, never a fan of gloves, I had my first gloveless surf this year. It was howling offshore winds... which is probably good for some people... but not good for someone who has to keep her 11' board from getting blown out from under her. The beach was frighteningly crowded. There has been this odd photoshopped photo of a super crowded Long Beach tossed about on the internet... ULTE2 thought it an excellent photo... but it seemed to me to be some sort of Hieronymus Bosch horror show... right at one of my favourite beaches. That's what Cox Bay looked like today... a Hieronymus Bosch horror show.