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So how big's it gonna get Wed/Thurs/Fri on west coast?
- Thread starter oneworlded
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Talk about a wrapping swell.
Always wanted to but felt dred looking at it, then read this and confirmed why not to.
thelifeofalatch-keysurfrat.blogspot.com/2011/10/life-and-near-death-at-little-makaha.html
Is that mushroom rock on the inside of this particular big wave spot? If so, holy hell.
Surfed it at size - once got washed all the way around PB point after getting nailed, never rode a wave that day. There's a right on the other side of the cove that I think is the better wave.
I'd bet the story from the blog is repeated every time it breaks at size. You get phucking wrecked out there, and if you live in SD you don't surf (relatively) gigantic waves often enough to be in shape for that kind of ass kicking.
I've surfed it several times between 3-4x OH. Only place in S.D. I've had to climb my leash. There seem to be these fingers of reef extending out and south. Once the wave breaks on the ridge it pushes into deep water so you get shoved down pretty deep. There are some massive barrels to be had but actually hunting one down and not getting mopped up is really...really difficult. Which is why its never crowded.
LOL. I was just about to mention that. Seems like the upper half of Newport is completely out (convenient time for the locals). There some sort of collusion going on here? Isn't Surfline headquarters in Huntington Beach? Wouldn't surprise me if they've all commuted southward and turned off some cams to keep the crowds down. There's been issues like this before during good swells.
It's much simpler than that. Surfline has cut way back on staff. They also cut way back on free live streaming to lower their webhosting costs.
With this big swell, everyone was hitting the cams yesterday. I was on surfline more yesterday than I have been the entire past year. Overloaded their webhosting and things started going down.
Sorry about that, saw the article and hotlinked the image Provided source link.