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Crowds at your local?
- Thread starter rts265
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We migrate down south every summer around this time, sorry we are adding to the already ridiculous crowds but surfers gotta surf and the south bay is flat for months straight and the breaks up around malibu are a zoo.
Has there been talk of an SB alliance where South Bay and Santa Barbara work out a deal to vaporize the Channel Islands and Palos Verdes?
We migrate down south every summer around this time, sorry we are adding to the already ridiculous crowds but surfers gotta surf and the south bay is flat for months straight and the breaks up around malibu are a zoo.
fucking stupid level crowd yesterday. thought might be a little surf so battled the PCH traffic thru Malizoo. was pretty small and settled at clownie cause I scored a parking spot easy. just decided to go for a body surf as it was gutless small. was having kind of fun despite it being all closed out. found a little spot to myself-ish. go for a wave, get down the line a bit, tumble in the white wash and then BAM felt something hit my head. beginner girl's fin slashed me in the head. Now i've got a second gash right next to the big one. this time didn't do the ER to get it stitched up. 2020 is fukin' SUCKING
We migrate down south every summer around this time, sorry we are adding to the already ridiculous crowds but surfers gotta surf and the south bay is flat for months straight and the breaks up around malibu are a zoo.
Maybe you just have really good luck but don’t realize it?fucking stupid level crowd yesterday. thought might be a little surf so battled the PCH traffic thru Malizoo. was pretty small and settled at clownie cause I scored a parking spot easy. just decided to go for a body surf as it was gutless small. was having kind of fun despite it being all closed out. found a little spot to myself-ish. go for a wave, get down the line a bit, tumble in the white wash and then BAM felt something hit my head. beginner girl's fin slashed me in the head. Now i've got a second gash right next to the big one. this time didn't do the ER to get it stitched up. 2020 is fukin' SUCKING
So far this summer you didn’t get paralyzed/drown and didn’t take a fin to the face.
What you do to fix it this time? I’m imagining something along the lines of:
it probably could take about 3 stitches to close it. didn't want to sit in the ER for 2+hours to get that done. just wrapping it until it heals. I already have all the first aid stuff from last time
Nobody working, not sure if unemployed or playing hooky from working from home. Lots of older guys and gals started surfing this Spring. They go to the "premiere" spots (spots with lots of parking and where it's visible to see other surfers checking waves).
One guy tried networking with me in the parking lot, when he saw me getting ready to go to work.
One guy tried networking with me in the parking lot, when he saw me getting ready to go to work.
The spots with cams are just gone.
Off the grid spots can still be had with some local knowledge and a little luck.
Off the grid spots can still be had with some local knowledge and a little luck.
The surf cam was a horrible invention.
End surf cams. End carpooling.
And if it's unexpectedly good, don't call everyone you know to come down.
packed at my local this morning for a fun swell that everyone knew was coming. more than half of the crowd are kids on wavestorms, and as it turns out, surfing is considered suitable PE for remote learning schedules. so the lineup is now basically PE class, with everything that goes along with that
OCMD was not empty peaks this morning, at least 8 people per non-descript block after block from the castle in either direction as far as you could walk.
Waist to chest sneaker waves but it was all families on softtops so no big deal. Still, the new normal for summer I guess.
Waist to chest sneaker waves but it was all families on softtops so no big deal. Still, the new normal for summer I guess.
If it's gonna be a crowd, at least this is an easier crowd to deal with.... more inclined to dodge set waves than go for them.