E's Surf Report: scored at the jetty

Big at OB.. big and messy.. Pacifica looking real clean.. a thick, chunky right working in the middle of the beach at Rockaway and the left at the southern edge almost working too.. maybe with the lower tide right now (11:17) that left will be cooking?? Lindy looking pretty small and closing out on the set waves.. maybe as the tide starts rising in the arvo conditions will improve there.. Starting in Pacifica, the swell is looking really clean and groomed, with long, mature, lined-up waves stacked up to the horizon... Sharp park was on fire.. with some incredible sections and daunting barrels.. but.. i ended up continuing south.. Montara big and scary.. Mavs breaking!... then the jetty. Waves breaking pretty far out, past the "14" marker on one of the jetty rocks. I actually surfed for 1.5 hours all by myself.. totally solo jetty session for me this morning.. i caught only 5 waves but three of them delivered fulfilling rides.. The wedge was happening in the northern corner of the surf-zone and i just sat on it and waited for waves.. All my rides were rights and many of them lasted two or three moves.. On my first ride i took off, bottom turned, then pumped, then cutback into the whitewater, then road down the face, pumped a few times to get around the section, then raced along a wall for a bit, then turned up the face and angled off the close-out section.. landing in the foam and almost pulling it off but instead getting tumbled.

it was a fun session.. and i really like surfing alone once in a while.. it's a challenge to find the right spot to sit when you have no-one else to go by. Thoughts of "the tooth" also tend to swarm the brain when surfing alone, but i try to suppress them as much as possible..

a bunch of people were suiting up as i exited the water.. soo.. people are probably surfing the jetty right now..

Lerm is playing hooky today and trying to score waves in northern Santa Cruz county.. he's a biatch!

bojon! i saw you heading down toward pacifica in your subaru! hope you scored some waves.

Dan Jones sent me a few pics of San Diego County going off.. i think that two of the spots are Cardiff and Swamis.. the other maybe a spot called Moonlight? Beautiful waves.
cardiff going off

swamis on fire

moonlight

also.. it seems that somebody lost there dog down at Ft. Funston.. supposedly this dog has been wandering around Taraval, near the beach.. please email me at cranial_bulge@yahoo.com if you have seen her.. her name is Ali
Ali