| February Overview | 1998 Overview |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, February 25th, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Location: | Rincon Point |
| Weather: | Clear skies with strong WNW winds shifting to W by noon. |
| Conditions: | Side-offshore in the cove, a bit lumpy with the windswell influence, but so hollow and makeable barrellzzzzzz. |
| Swell: | Holding windswell and fading groundswell, 14 ft 17 s outer buoys. |
| Surf: | Bigger on the outside with solid overhead to overhead and a half sets in the rivermouth, around shoulder high in the cove with overhead sets. |
| Comments: |
The wind pulsed and shifted all day; offshore again around
Goleta but a bit too small for my tastes. On the drive down,
Shark's Cove was looking clean, not at all like I expected --
stoked me -- but then by Santa Claus Lane things were looking
a bit windy again. The cove looked rideable on a quick check.
Rideable -- ha. The sesh sums up with two words: tube time. The Queen of the Coast was showing us her mystic eyes, giving that brown, doey come-hither stare and fluttering those eyelashes. Got a dry barrel on nearly every wave I took, and there was plenty to go around until the crowd started coming on late. 6' high berms of driftwood, shoots, and logs atop the point and a wide, mucky beach freshly deposited by the creek on the inside. Do a little jitterbug on the wet sand and sink down to the calves. The rivermouth had a respectable cobble sandbar that might be worth checking on a higher tide, just a low tide shoredump now. When the waves weren't barrelling, they were making lots of nice peaks and walls to play with, but the focus was definitely on the brown room. Impressions of El Cap or Sandspit or Kirra. Got deeper in the pit for longer than I ever had before, and made it out of all of them. Yaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! |