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Latest Report Surf Reports February Reports |
Santa Barbara Area Surf Report |
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| Date/Time: | Saturday, 1 February, 10:30-12:00 | ||
| Location: | Rincon | ||
| Weather: | Foggy for the first time in forever | ||
| Conditions: | Pretty small and a bit sluggish | ||
| Swell (Harvest Bouy): | 5.9ft @ 17s @ 285° | ||
| Tide: | 5.0 and dropping | ||
| Surf: | Waist High | ||
| Board: | Walden | ||
| Comments: | Unkle, Steve and I met like fools along the PCH at 6:30am. We knew there was a super high tide at 8:30 but we thought we could get something before it shut places down. Wrong. We ended up staring at a million different spots and getting eyed by the dorky Ventura County Parking Natzi's in their cute little white trucks all morning. At least when 7:00 rolled around the parking natzi's wouldn't hassle us. We then left the PCH and checked out Pipes. It was crowded beyond belief and feeling the effects of the tide. One of the campers at a spot we had checked was cooking sausage and that smell was causing intense hunger amongst the group, so we headed to Art's Corner Cafe. It was their we learned the Shuttle had exploded on final approach over texas. We broke camp and I headed north and pulled into the Rincon parking lot. A quick check showed that the tide was letting up a bit and so I went out for a nice little longboard session. Only a dozen or so out at first and as the tide got better the numbers headed to 50 or so, but it was well worth it. Caught some rides that had me slippin and slidin on down the line, trying to pull some cheater fives and but mostly putting on a show of un-coordination. Rincon is such a crack up. I could write about the characters there for days. Not being a regular I'm very much on the outside, but you can see the little community that is Rincon, even from the outside. There was this one guy with a red wetsuit and a red board. I kept looking for the spiderman logo or something, but he was glued to the nose so i was certainly in admiration. Some other classic figures, bearded, older distinguished gentlemen with style and class. They had me wondering if they were some kind of living legend that I should know or just some other guy hanging 5. Also a lot of guys out there who looked kind of pacific islander. Big Island Fed boys who had enough momentum that no one was getting in there way. While otheres were a bit tense and scrapping for waves some of these fellas had grins as wide as thier bellies and couldn't care about jocking for position. Best ride of the day for me was a sleeper out towards the creek but not at the creek. Not a big set wave, but one that manage to carry me all the way into the cove and to the 101. A couple more sliding waves like that and I decided I need to surf this place a little more. I think I'm going to make it my official spot for February. My last wave of the day had me to the beach at the rocks and I noticed a little baby sea lion clammering on the rocks below the 101. I left him alone figuring the last thing he needed was a group of gawkers bothering him. | ||
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Created by Tim Maddux, Continued by Pope |