Tuesday, August 16, 2005 @ 12:00 PM
Horseshoe Trip Day 1
The Horseshoe Trip was the working codename for a a 4 day trip to Baja with Mank. Out of all our summer weekends only August 20th worked out for both of us and we inked it on the calendar sometime in late June. July and early August was all but flat, and as our weekend got closer we were surf starved and it looked like we'd get bageled in Baja. Then the forecast sites followed a low that broke off of Chile on August 9th. Seas were 29ft for about 36 hours and it was supposed to send waves to us on Wednesday, August 17th. These would be the first real waves to hit SoCal in 1-2 months. We followed this swell and as it got closer we realized we would get down to Baja as the swell was going away. We then decided to take 3 days off of work and head down Tuesday night and try to get the peak of the swell on Wednesday.
So on Tuesday at 6:00pm I headed out from work in Goleta and navigated thru traffic in LA and Orange County and made it to Mank's around 10:00pm in San Diego. We packed up, got some gas then stopped at Bryan's for a pint of beer out of his kegerator he built in his garage. He loaned us a lobster pot too. We then went across San Ysidro and were in Baja. We got to K58/La Fonda after midnnight, and it was crowded camping for a Tuesday night. Setup my tent and crashed out.