Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

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Headed up to Sands, figured it was my best chance of getting something to ride with the least amount of driving for a Sunday afternoon. Bear went running, I took the Fish out, just west of the Snowy Plover docent. Ended up surfing most of my session right in front of the docent, while a pack of 20 or so were just to the east at the main peak. The main peak looked dangerous, a lot of rookies out there and a lot of boards flying and near misses. School is back in session and so enters a new crop of students in the water. I was all by lonesome mostly, picking off tons and tons of thigh high waves that would usually close out but sometimes offer a a fun left or right on which to try some move that would eventually have me running to the beach after my leashless board.

I knew the Kelly Slater white wetsuit thing would catch on, and sure enough a white wetsuit kid was out there, I mistook him for Kelly Slater with the CI and white wetsuit. Since most people had potato chip shortboards out there and the waves had no power I ended up catching a lot, and soon I had a pack of 6 guys just west of me and 4 or 5 on the other side of me. However, without much foam these guys weren't really going anywhere.

An awesome show by some local dolphins and yet again a curious sea lion. What is it with curious seals these days? I had one follow me all over Rincon yesterday, they were like paparazzi in Carp a few weeks ago, Mike had one rest his chin on the tail of his board this weekend, and people are getting their toes nibbled along the coast. Crazy Sea Lions.