Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

Comments:

Temperature at the house was 33 degrees at 5:30 am and 37 by the time I woke up. Good call on keeping the wetsuit inside. The swell was back down to 5ft, and the wind had switched from NE to NNE and a river of sand was blowing down the beach and in the water. At first it was about as windy as yesterday, still surfable with some good peaks. Only half dozen folks out but I paddled out at the same time as a dozen others so soon we had 1.5 dozen out there. Within a half hour the wind came on so strong, and started tilting so much to the North that all of us but 3 were out of there. There is a certain camradrie with your fellow surfers when you are in the parking lot after surving conditions that blew a kayaker out to sea. I caught maybe 6 waves max, only 2 of which took me anywhere but down.