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Last week was mostly 'fun', but....
The back half of this winter is laying an egg especially by El Nino standards. We had a fun week but it's early March. A fun week in early March is supposed to be, "Those who can't duck dive, don't even bother coming to the beach."
We've also suffered, badly, from it being sooooo close to at least being a very high quality version of what was on offer. Take Saturday for example. Another 20 degrees of offshore angle during the meat of the low tide would have turned it from fun, but kind of had to wait and pick through ones with cross bump, to every wave over thigh high is perfect and the ones over stomach high you can easily tuck into a shampoo, come out and hit a turn. If the wind had turned juuuuuuust a little earlier Saturday morning, there would have been tubes galore underneath instead of some wedges and seeing a spitter or two down the beach but not getting good sniffs on any.
We've had two days in the last 2-3 weeks with just pristine conditions and a good swell mix for the weekday lunch window, but the size was "still got it" on a shortboard where really, if it had been that little bit bigger, you wouldn't count it as a proving session because it was easy to catch many waves and do many turns on a regular shortboard.
March 11th now and no real swells on the forecast.