Winter must be getting close - had frost on my windshield this morning. As morning progressed, became an absolutely beautiful day, sunny, warm, light offshore winds, but unfortunately a lot less swell. I could see the main break was already crowded again and just didn't want to deal with it; found a nice little peak elsewhere, like a very high tide Uppers, waist to chest high burgery rights and occasional "lefts". At first didn't look all that good but too nice a day to not surf. And it's usually better than it looks.
Ended up being really fun and actually relatively consistent. 50-150+ yard rights, lining up across the sandbar to the inside. About 4 to 6 of us having a pretty informal rotation, super mellow. Good seeing doc_flavonoid out there too; a lot of fun trading waves. Was out for a little under 3 hours and the vast majority of that was spent either surfing or paddling back out. Definitely lost count of how many waves I got in that time but it was a lot. Even though a little burgery, waves had enough push to get and keep you in them. A few of the waves petered out relatively quickly but a lot connected through the inside, making for a long ride. A day of 100 cutbacks, many of them quite lazy haha. But seriously, really fun cruisy day, mostly longboarders out but was definitely more than shortboardable. And on top of it an occasional expressway back out just to the side of the sandbar; made for a nice gentlemanly paddle back out.
Been surfing a lot last couple of weeks, nice to be getting into a bit of a rhythm. The new Senate has actually been working really well on these burgery days; part of that is related to dropping about 15 pounds over the course of the year, definitely has made a difference. And I got my 6'7" back from the shop too; outstanding repair. Stocked. Now hopefully I don't snap it the very next session.