Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

Comments:

No one out and looking bad. Same as my surf check yesteray. Only today I needed it more. I suited up and went out. Waves were breaking very close to shore in waist high water. Leashless, on the fish and catching tons of small waves that went mostly nowhere. Every now and then a set would come in that offered waves in the calf high range, but those were rare.

After about a half hour three kids came to join me. They watched for awhile, sure they were not going to join, but after one deceiving set came in and I caught a long wave, for the conditions, they were out with me, respectfully spreading out like good citizens.

Protocol was for the old 'stand in the water and hold your board' or the old 'lay on your board'. For some reason, and I don't know why, whenever waves are this small you just don't sit on your board in the water. It just seems wrong to sit up when the waves are that small. So you stand in the lineup, as if to tell people, "I'm just out here to get wet, no this is not surfable". All four of us were doing this.