Saturday, August 20, 2005 @ 12:00 PM
Horseshoe Trip Day 5
Woke up and the swell had dropped even more. A few orange county guys had showed up on either side of us in the night, and three people were surfing before 10:00am. I almost went out to get wet put couldn't muster it. We headed north, towards the border unless we found something good. Started trying to find another point break we heard about, drove around in a lot of sands, went thru a drive river bottom and found a locked gate. Went inland to get around it and ended up on this huge bluff.
Finally made it to the ocean and I was navigating and realzed we were not where I thought we were. Turned on the GPS for the first time on the trip. We were at 386 feet up on a bluff that we had no idea how to get to the ocean. We navigated our way north and hit the M1 before we hit the turnoff I was looking for to a rivermouth we thought about checking out. After that it was shoot towards the border, we stopped to check out K58 on the way up, it was blown out and small. The BorderX was about one hour and I was back in the US 24 hours ahead of schedule.
An uneventfull drive home and I was in SB by 10:00, and much of Saturday was cleaning Mexican Dust off of every square inch of equipment I brought down there. The Horseshoe Trip was a success, at the cost of 3 vacation days. Had we not left early the story would have been entirely different. We have a list of places we want to check out for the next Horseshoe Trip.