Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

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Another morning along the Central Coast, but this was one of the rare occurences where the water has been textured when I've arrived. Instead of offshores we had a mild onshore condition which gave the water some bumpy patches and exposed the rips a little more clearly. The waves didn't look too promising but went for an hour session anyway. Waist high waves, a little lumpy and slow with an occaisional surprise thrown in.

Dolphins again, and this time I saw the strangest thing. A pod of dolphins appeared from nowhere, heading North quite casually. Behind them was a Seal or Sea Lion that was just a few yards behind them and keeping up with them, apparently following them. This Seal was actually "dolphining" out of the water like a dolphin, where every few yards it would dive out of the water, get some air and keep it's forward progess. This was either one confused Seal or a very smart seal staying with a pod of dolphins to avoid the Man.