Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

Location:		Sands
Weather:		Spectacular Post Storm Sun
Conditions:		Fast and Clean
Swell:		11' mid period swell at Harvest
Surf:		Head High Sets

Comments:

With parts of the county getting over 6 inches of rain between Sunday and Wednesday the water probably wasn't the cleanest out there, but it was big yesterday and still looked good today so I headed to sands with the shorty. It was crowded for a pre-lunch session, don't these kids go to class? Head high sets with nice shape were coming in, perhaps closing out a little too much but that broke up the lineup a bit. I headed down to the peak in front of the rocks at the snowy plover refuge and soon cut open my foot walking out. Nice. Once out I caught a few fun ones off the bat, super fast rights that were so clean. I then drifted to the main pack and prompty choked two waves in a row. Ran into our newly highered 18 year old gopher at work, who promptly has been nicknamed Squid. He was on his 7'2 and catching a lot of waves and coming back from every one with a giant grin and claiming that was his best wave ever. I manged to eat it in front of him, therby ruining any chances of him runing any errands for me at work in the near future. Caught shoulder high and running rampant wave in. Best day of surfing in Santa Barbara in a month for me.