Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

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6ft+ high tides courtesy of our full moon shot the dawn patrol sessions around Thanksgiving. Both on Thanksgiving Day and the day after Unkle and I couldn't find a time during a good tide to make it out, and the waves looked so small we weren't rushing to get out anyway. Today we went during high tide anyway, just to keep up the tradition of the Thanksgiving weekend sessions. Paddled out just West of Emma Wood into a peak. A few people out at the next peak down the coast but mostly people stopping by and hoping there was some reason we were out there. There wasn't. We caught what we could, about a dozen waves or so that had any shape at all. Water was cold, makes me wonder what it was like up on the Central Coast.

Clouds were around, starting to gather for the showers that would show up in the afternoon. It's a bummer to not have an epic swell on Thanksgiving. Looks like Christmas will have a repeat of the high tides during the dawn patrol making it once again difficult to sneak sessions in early while down in Ventura.