Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

Comments: Two days of a cold front that brought in some wind and then some spring rain. The buoys seemed to contain some long period swell out of the NW but the wind still felt an issue. Greg and I canceled plans to longboard after work. Then around 6:15 the wind seemed to die and I figured I'd take the shortboard and see if I could get wet. A no check suit up and a trot down the disengrated granite path, and I saw a kid pull two aerials on the first wave I saw. He came in after that wave and I paddled out, with just a few others in the water. Some rip currents were creating some chopped up water, and the water was a bit brown from the rain, but besides that it was good water.

The light after a rain is great, and the in the afternoon when it comes in perpendicular to you it's even better. Every left I took was a silhoute, and every right was like having fill flash on your. I mostly bogged down on my first few rights, couldn't get any speed or rythem before the suckers closed out on me. Then I had a few fast and fun lefts that ended with a tap off the lip. Then I tried the rights again and by then I had some mo to get going and trying turns or some crazy vertical snaps that would fail.

Surfed until the sun went down.