- Date/Time:
- Saturday, March 29th, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
- Location:
- North County
- Weather:
- Warm, slightly hazy, calm winds.
- Conditions:
- Fair, no chop but a lot of warble and lump from the outside.
- Swell:
- Inconsistent and punchy out of the WNW, head high to double overhead.
- Comments:
- Big closeout sections shoaling up far outside and then dumping hard in big bowls on the inside reefs. Pretty sketchy for a while, totally alone in the lineup save for two other guys who got washed in to the sand just as I got outside. Saw a big male sea lion raise his basketball-sized head above the water surface for a few moments about 50 yards inside me, and a pod of dolphins racing the sections about an hour later.
Mainly stuck to taking off on the shoulder of the big peak and then bottom turning into the next big bowl. Some small influence out of the southern hemisphere kept it peaky and difficult to line up properly, but the makeable ones were a blast with big hollow faces sucking out over boils, kelp, and rock.
Eventually some grommets paddled out, way undergunned on sub-6' boards, along with a fellow on a 9'6" gun who had an easy time of it. Stayed out until they all went in and I was alone again. It took signals of starvation from my belly and pain between my shoulder blades to get me out of the water.
World Surf Day '97 are today and tomorrow. Surf, and then email me a report using the format on the World Surf Day 1997 web page. Hundreds of people around the planet are participating -- why don't you join us?