Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

Comments: Months and months of solely surfing Goleta or the Central Coast and it's time to break out and head down to the gentle soothing breaks down near Santa Barbara. A fair amount of windswell on the buoys as well as some SW, but I'm not sure what we were seeing out there. Little knee highers were breaking inside and along the beach. Fast with good shape and although small still worth catching. Every 10+ minutes or so a real fun set would break up and outside. Thigh high, maybe a waist high one or two, they were sectiony and fast.

I was out with Greggory, both on our longboards. The water got super warm compared to last week. The sunset was nice, the hills softly filled with color, the water refreshing, all things I miss about surfing down in the protected spots.

A couple of fun set waves with some walking, got shut down way too much and stuck in the wash. There was a guy out there that needed to learn wave ettiquette, probably should of given a tip or two about priority. Would continually paddle past Greggory and I, take off on the best set waves and completely blow it, leaving Greggory or I scrambling to to takeout the insurance policy. Then after blowing it, would still paddle deepest. At a well policied spot this would not happen.

One of the better set waves came thru towards the end, I was deeper than Greggory but yelled out for a party wave. We both took off side by side and the wave was so fast it was apparent we both couldn't keep up thru the sections and not run into each other so I took one for the team and cut back and headed left although there was no left. Greggory went to the beach on that one. It got less and less crowded, we caught a few more fun ones and then headed to the Blue Collar Bistro which we found out is closed on Monday nights. Rats.