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surfline says...

2-3 ft +

knee to chest high

POOR TO FAIR CONDITIONS

Hey, this is Schaler with the report for Monday morning

This morning's dawn patrol: Lightly textured, peaky lines on tap this morning. Things are a little sluggish as we approach high tide, so look for a little improvement when the tide drops back out. 

magicseaweed says...

6am		4ft	17secs		1mph			64f
	9am		4ft	17secs		9mph			70f

with conflicting forecasts i went to look for myself.  at 8:30am the it was still fairly glassy and the occasional 4 footer was barreling through.  fun session, got some juicy left handers and got rolled a couple times.

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surfing in many forms

today in mission beach we had a day chock full of surfing in many forms...

am session, long clean waist high peelers

lunch at the wave house, watching people rip or bust their ass on brutus maximus was entertaining

followed by an afternoon stand up paddle session in mission bay

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surfing mission beach

so we decided to stay in san diego a couple more days, the weather is perfect and the surfing is great.  we just ton't want to leave.

here are some shots of me surfing mission beach

 

 

and in ocean beach there is a place called dog beach where there is surfing and you can let your dogs run free and play.... this place is stellar!

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day 76: oceanside to pacific beach

we have decided the three places that we are considering for relocation are: wilmington north carolina, charleston south carolina and san diego.  with that being said we are focusing a bit more time and energy in seeing san diego thoroughly.

we tried to camp in northern san diego at san elijo state beach, but the reservation process and rules for the state beaches are jacked up.  we were not able to find reasonable accommodations so we back to a place we have previously visited in pacific beach called campland on the bay.

i got in two good sessions at tourmaline surf beach before the pacific went flat. 

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day 74: morro bay to oceanside

our plan is to see as much of california as humanly possible.  in order to do that we are making stops in places we missed on the way up.  northern san diego county is now on our radar and we camped for a couple days in oceanside.

oceanside is a chilled out surf town with a fun beach area.  i got a couple good sessions in at the beach break, waist to chest and long california lines.

while in eceanside we had a great dinner.  teriyaki chicken boston lettuce wraps with sprouts and cuccumbers.  

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surfing cayucos

morro rock right outside my front door was indeed breaking while we stayed here, but the break was disorganized and closey-outy.

just down highway 1 a couple miles was cayucos and i got a good session in at the pier.  the locals were nice, i slid right into the lineup at the peak and scored some long lines.  it was fairly clean and throwing chest high bombs.

thank you hedwig for the cayucos recommendation!

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day 68: fairfield to san francisco

we spent a wonderful 11 days with weston exploring; santa cruz, the redwood forest, napa valley and sonoma county.  we ended the trip at wes's home in fairfield where we had christmas.  we made a traditional christmas eve meal of roasted chicken and stuffing, garlic mashed potatoes and green bean casserole.  Christmas day we saw the movie avatar in imax 3d and had mexican food.  Although we were not with our immediate family... our time spent with an old friend over christmas was awe inspiring.

day 68 we packed up bento box and headed for san francisco.   we got about 40 miles when we recognized we had a another shredded trailer tire, we were about at the middle of the bay bridge no less.  sunday after christmas downtown san fran with a bum tire on the camper is no place to be.  after making many calls to tire stores, rv repair places and finally hotels.  we decided to find a cheap hotel and hunker down until there were businesses open to repair our problem.

we had to order some new tires which took 24 hours so we went out and explored the city in the mean time.

cable car with an Alcatraz back.  this scene made me sing the rice-a-roni song for hours.

our hotel was on lombard and a couple of blocks away was this street, "the curviest street in the world."

per tim's suggestion we enjoyed the famous irish coffee from buena vista.

cashmere enjoyed every bit of crissy field, the park at the base of the golden gate.

the waves at the golden gate were huge and cold.  these dudes have cojones grande!

the sunset made the golden gate sparkle like a new penny.

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california christmas

we had the pleasure to spend the christmas week with our good friend weston.  a week of debauchery touring santa cruz, the redwood forest, napa valley and sonoma county.

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surfing santa cruz

i have said it before about other california breaks, but i have to say it again.  surfing in santa cruz is like disneyland.  i checked pleasure point and steamer lane and steamer looked to good not to paddling out.  nw ground swell just throwing head high peelers off the cliffs.  i have a good session, could have been better.  a lot of people in the water and the kelp is everywhere and overwhelming.  i think for today's session i am going to switch out the big single fin for a snubbed 3 fin set.  maybe i can get over on the kelp better.

planning my steamer lane attack

there are a lot of rippers here

watermen's disneyland

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surfing san onofre/trestles/huntington beach

we decided to have an extended stay in newport beach, centrally located in orange county to all the world class surf breaks.

sunday i peeped the newport beach and balboa piers and the monster they call the wedge.  too bad it was blown out.

monday kristen and i drove down to san onofre state beach and hiked up to trestles.  i surfed san onofre, church and lower trestles.  church and lowers were the stand out sessions... i was blessed to surf some of the longest cleanest chest high waves.  no exaggeration, i linked a couple sections that may have been a 1/2 mile long.

 

tuesday kristen and i drove up to huntington beach pier.  huntington is like disneyland for surfers.  we happened to huntington with good timing... every tuesday on the blocks by the pier they host a street fair.  kristen scored a sweet 1/2 price burton parka.  i had a good surf session, got i bit chopped and the current over the pier a bit to strong towards the end.

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surfing san diego

i have to admit, pulling into san diego i was a bit nervous thinking about the idea of surfing the forecasted "overhead to double overhead."  but being dry for a couple weeks... i got over the nerves quickly, picked a mellow beach break and paddled out.  it turns out i am enough of a surfer to mack on the head high pacific ground swell.  i had a couple really good sessions at pacific beach, some of the best surfing i have ever experienced.

  ib pier

la jolla

pb and mission

my first session went several hours into dusk

sunset over tourmaline surf park

i am ready for the rest of this blessed coast, next bring on huntington!

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day 42-47 texas at large

day 42: new orleans to galveston, texas.  i-10 through baton rouge was hell, it took a hour to travel 3 miles.  then finally once in galveston the rain came.  i lived close to galveston when i was young and getting into town brought back a flood of memories.  galveston looked a bit worse for wear after being devastated with storms last year.  ironically we really did not get to explore much since it rained for 48 hours straight.

galveston island state park campground under water.

stopped through the old familiar home town of my family.

day 44:  galveston to port aransas.  getting tired of the being wet, we pushed on to port aransas down the coast from galveston.  in port aransas the rain stopped, but then it got cold the temperature dropped 15 degrees.  port-a is a cool town... the beach is hard packed and the municipality considers the beach a roadway and also you can have a campfire anywhere and camp on the beach for free.  we drove 20 miles of the beach down to padre island.

 

the surf was flat and the "men in grey suits" were gigantic.

day 46:  port aransas to austin.  this is the unfortunate day that we have left the coastline to cross the country.  we arrived late to austin, got a cheap hotel room and headed out on the town.  we got some good food and some hot music at lambert's, an unscale bbq joint in downtown austin.  in the morning i ended up in bad shape, either some food poisoning or i was dosed by someone at the bar.... i spend the next 10 hours with my head in the toilet.  we had to stay an extra night just so i could recover properly.

checked out a set by "brownout!" a blazin' hot latin funk band... they dudes kicked ass.  they serve as the back up band for prince.  

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day 23/24: st. augustine to sebastian inlet to palm beach

days 23/24 were full of travel and i learned a valuable lesson.  simple put.... surf when there are waves.  we traveled from st. augustine to sebastian inlet on day 23.  during our trip down scenic a1a we stopped in daytona/ponce inlet for lunch.  while eating my subway $5 foot long, the waves were waist to chest and mackin'.  instead of sneaking out for little session i decided to keep driving, since sebastian inlet is famous for surfing and the forecast for the next 3 days was good.  we arrived to sebastian inlet did out thing, i awoke to next morning to a cold blown out surf!  in addition our camper has snapped a lift cable so only 3 of the posts will support the roof now.  we decided to move on to palm beach in search of sun and better waves, and yes we have found it.

daytona beach mackin'

sebastian inlet slackin'

palm beach(lake worth) clean and fun

air temp 88 water temp 77

 

got me some green room section

 

lovin' life again

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