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October Opening Wrapup

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Naples
The Naples decision has been postponed as both sides meet today. For the first time in our many years of emailing our 5 County Supervisors, we received a response. Both Brooks Firestone and Salud Carbajal were kind of enough to email us.

Opening Weekend
Opening Day went off since we last wrote although there is some disagreement about what day it happened on. We scored very fun waves on Wednesday October 1st, although we considered the true opener on Thursday October 2nd. We've heard arguments for either day to be considered the opener. Either way, we had fun consistent waves from Wednesday to the following Tuesday. Tom over at Goleta Surfing does it again, covering Opening Weekend through his eyes. Callie Bowdish (who we saw while Dawn Patroling Sands Thursday October 9th ) has some photos from October 2nd at Coal Oil Point and October 5th at Deveraux (Photo credit to right: Bowdish). The next swell was due in Thursday the 9th into the early weekend, and this was not very impressive for our sessions on Thursday and Friday. Stormsurf didn't even consider any of these swells true Winter swells, placing them on their Summer Scale. Stormsurf is also predicting a below average Winter due to their analysis of ENSO conditions.

Some Surf News Of Note:

• UCSB Surf Team is gearing up for another year to defend their national title. It is going to be tough this year as a lot of talent graduated last year.
  
• Daily Nexus Surf Columnist Todd Prodanovich is back and writing about his swirling into the IV abyss.
• Keeping and Eye On IV, a little surf video by Chris about some early season swell in IV.

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