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SteveT

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So much of Norcal is like that. Might be some little nooks and crannies with Mason Ho type waves hidden in there.
I was up in Avila last Saturday with the wife on a day trip showing her some stuff she hadn't seen before.
Went to the cave out on the south end of the bay and the surf was absolutely pumping, there's a slab/point at the base of the cliff and it was breaking outside on the sets, total psycho. I said to my wife, "Mason Ho would be all over that."
 
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Mr Doof

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Have many fond childhood memories there.

The biggest has to be trying to follow my three mean older sisters up the dune to the top but getting blocked by a ridge of hard packed sand and them laughing when I couldn't get past it. On the next visit, figured I would have to walk way around, over by where the hang gliders use to launch in order to bypass the ridges. Took me twice as long, but there I was, at the top, king of the dune in my own tiny mind, and my sisters, harumphing and garumphing about something and then disappearing into the woods to explore the northern side .

I was up in Avila last Saturday with the wife on a day trip showing her some stuff she hadn't seen before.
Went to the cave out on the south end of the bay and the surf was absolutely pumping, there's a slab/point at the base of the cliff and it was breaking outside on the sets, total psycho. I said to my wife, "Mason Ho would be all over that."
Did she then say, "Who?"
 

Hump

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Been a few little days up here.



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Bit of a scramble below.
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Another Mike Purpus wannabe doing his thing. LOL
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These are the days I used to live for there.

Photos courtesy of B-Rad Carr


Take care.
 
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SteveT

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Have many fond childhood memories there.

The biggest has to be trying to follow my three mean older sisters up the dune to the top but getting blocked by a ridge of hard packed sand and them laughing when I couldn't get past it. On the next visit, figured I would have to walk way around, over by where the hang gliders use to launch in order to bypass the ridges. Took me twice as long, but there I was, at the top, king of the dune in my own tiny mind, and my sisters, harumphing and garumphing about something and then disappearing into the woods to explore the northern side .



Did she then say, "Who?"
Yes, she did.
I had to explain it to her.
 
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SteveT

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Been an incredible run of surf for the past 2 weeks.
Snapped this coming back from our hike to the hanglider port yesterday.
Ummm, no thanks, in all the years I've lived here I've never surfed out there.
I have personally seen fluffy swimming around outside the kelp and stumbled across seal carcasses with gaping bites on the beach. (there's a protected rookery at the base of the pier)

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