Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

Some big football games this Saturday between big rivalaries and maybe that put something in the air. However before that I drove south so find a good high tide spot. The place I choose was shut down, perfect little 1 foot pipes combed by stiff offshores breaking on the sand. As opposed to furthering the drive south into stronger winds I headed to the Mesa and checked it out. It was windless and with more wave action and while I was scoping the waves two of the tweakers that hang out in the parking lot and get drunk decided to start puffing their chests out and yelling at each other. Soon there was a little fist fight right behind me, but it was over before it started. The drunks continued to argue and talk about cops and suing. I wasn't spending my Saturday morning detailing to law enforcement what I saw so I suited up and hid in the water.

Small knee high waves, sometimes thigh high. Some little barrels would come in, but most of these waves were breaking shallow. A couple of kids came out in front of the rivermouth which was the better peak while I surfed in front of a lifegaurd tower. It was small but I had a few waves that were longer than 3 seconds. Water still quite warm, and the sun was strong. Cops showed up and started playing babysitter to the two tweakers, and I was able to moniter the situation from the comfort of the water. I got a couple of little cover-ups and a couple of fun race down the lines, but it wore out after an hour. On my way back to the car, tweaker #1 was firmly planted in the sand where I'm sure I would be able to find him for the rest of the day.