Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

Comments: In true weekend warrior fashion my body hadn't seen surf all week, but I saw some nice windswell on Thursday evening at the Mesa. Sure enough once at home the Harvest buoy was at 10' compared to 2' about 12 hours ago. Really short period stuff but I woke up at dawn on Friday to check it out. Why I would choose Rincon for windswell is beyond me, only a few cars in the parking lot, and a few guys took off after checking it out. Not to be turned away I headed out without checking it and was glad I did. It looked flat but every now and then a set would line up and you could get rides from whip ladies house to near the hut. Speaking of the hut, it is looking real good this summer. Someone has been doing some mad housekeeping, the sand all raked, the table all clean. They even got a boat down there, no doubt for dorry boat races.

Just a few folks out, sharing waves the old fashioned way. One guy had a 7' pink/red shortboard and he was making it work well out there. Some waves came in at waist high and held up, a woman I've seen out there often was was by far and away better then the 3 of us guys out there, and she had an uncanny ability at wrangling in the biggest and best waves. Womens intuition?

In other Rincon news there was some broken glass in the parking lot on Sunday that was not there on Saturday. It is still there and I wonder what the story is there. Looks like someone wanted a stereo real bad.