Santa Barbara Area Surf Report

May Overview | 1997 Overview


Date/Time: Saturday, May 24th, 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Location: C Street / Fairgrounds
Weather: Cool, dank, and overcast with strong onshores.
Conditions: Poor, getting blown to pieces.
Swell: Disappointingly small of the SW, 2' at 17 s, with dominating small windswell.
Surf: Knee high or so, short-period lumpy peaks.
Comments: Walked the point from the hotel to the Ventura rivermouth and back again, got a look at a small contest being run on the inside at C Street. Some interesting underwater dunes in the meandering flow of the rivermouth and other cool sand shapes all along the spit running out to sea.

Santa Barbara Surfing -- Last updated 5/25/97.