That happened in ‘77 too, the water and beach were a mess with flotsam runoff from the SJC. Rattlesnakes. Had I not been there I never would have believed it. Herbie got some smokers.
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Where the South's At?
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I got laid off from a job in Sept 2009 at the tip of the 09/10 El Niño. It started breaking head high or better in Sept and didn’t stop til Feb. I learned so much that season.
I would be stoked to have another similar season. Waves so plentiful you have to limit your consecutive days to allow for some recovery.
That fall season was insane
Was my last quarter of grad school with only 1 class and I was no longer working. So much free time to surf and perfect conditions 
Happened in the 2000's as well. 2006 maybe?
River blew out and produced a perfect sand point set-up.
2 weeks later a few big NW swells came through and made perfect 6ft barrels throwing as wide as they were tall.
I had to rub my eyes when I showed up because I didn't believe what I was seeing
Have surfed twice weekly at the least in SoCal this spring/summer, some extra fun/bowly 1's this morning too on the tide push at the local, no complaints, thankful, always try to make lemonade out of your perceived lemons...
That 97 El Niño when the San Mateo creek blew out it carried out god knows how much poison oak. I got lit up so bad. Was just itching for weeks. That was a novel experience.
I went to Ensenada for that swell, surfed flawless outer stacks with one other guy. Before the harbor extension.
San Miguel the evening before that.
My ex cuñado (he’s dead that’s why he’s an ex) was at the fishy school there and when we were there he and his buddies were watching from the short jetty by the school. He remembered me when we met at my wedding 20 years later.
.7 @ 17 on the nearshore buoy. New England's going to get it better.
I predict sometime this fall SoCal will get an early season Northern Hemi to drop down low and send like a 265 the same time a SSW rolls through with good conditions all day.
Grim. Normally you want a La Nina for late August on the EC.
I predict sometime this fall SoCal will get an early season Northern Hemi to drop down low and send like a 265 the same time a SSW rolls through with good conditions all day.
I always get surf on my trips in late August. Warm clean water. Sun in my face. Empty beachbreaks at dawn. Small but fun. I got a 38 litre quad that loves waist to chest high waves. Going Mexico in October and back to Delaware too. Maybe an OBX trip.
I had only been surfing for a couple of years and those were the biggest waves I had ever surfed. I recall getting my ass handled to me on multiple occasions during that swell.