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Today was a pretty amazing surf day. I paddled out at 11th Street in Del Mar. Afterward, I took some photos:
Pretty good conditions:
The rest are here:
http://flickr.com/photos/mswebersd/archives/date-posted/2009/01/19/ or on this site after the sunset photos: http://mswebby.com/flickr/set.php?set_id=72157607806007223&set_name=Del+Mar%3A+11th+Street
I’ve surfed 8 days in a row, ending Wednesday. The winter consistency finally arrived. Not a day went by without head high waves and I’m exhausted. My whole body feels like I’ve been through a car accident. My arms and legs hurt, I get constant headaches and my digestive system is off. It’s really a good thing the last two days were flat because I needed the break. The surf comes in “waves” though… the next week straight is not supposed to pick up much. “Bummer”
I met Brian at work in the AM yesterday and went surfing a D-Street. It started out OK, then it just got really closed out with the large swell and the rapidly falling tide. On our way back, we checked Pipes which looked 10x better than it did on the way to D-Street an hour before. We really screwed up on our spot check- we didn’t check Torrey Pines or Del Mar, drove through a consistently awesome Seaside and Cardiff, and passed up on Pipes due to the tide (which was falling).
Here’s Del Mar from yesterday, compliments of SurfShot:
Now I have to wait another week before the water is clean again.
Last night, hunger and cats woke me up around 2:30. I walked around, poured a bowl of cereal, then kicked the cats out and tried to get back to bed. Falling asleep again was next to impossible since I couldn’t find a comfortable spot. So after waking Hayley up on accident, I decided to go out to the couch and I was out immediately. I awoke at 5:30 again to an accident on the freeway. The horn was going off for about twenty minutes, but I finally feel asleep for another couple hours.
So I was a little tired. I called Greg at 9 and we were at Torrey Pines around 10. I woke up right away, so stoked when I saw that it was feeling the south swell. We stayed there for about an hour, then decided to head up north to 12th street because the low tide was really affecting the shape. It was just steep drops followed by a pounding.
Del Mar’s waves surpassed my expectations. Mellow, but open waves were peeling in both directions, breaking pretty far out. While the wind was still calm, the waves were totally awesome. We got out when it junked out. Awesome day.