E's Surf Report: mellow and fun at Lindy

Man.. it sounds like Sliz-oat was *all time* yesterday afternoon... (instead of saying "afternoon", aussies often say, "arvo").. i'm bummed that i missed it. I cruised out there this morning hoping for traces of yesterday's low-tide glory.. but met with disapointing conditions. A marvelously groomed sea-surface, a solid, mid-range groundswell and a rising tide somehow didn't combine into nice surf. A few of the set waves would break and then mush on the outer bar, but most waves closed-out violently on the inside sandbar.. hmm.. so i headed south.. right to good ol' Schmlindy!!! gotta love it! Still pretty dark when i pulled into the lot at 6:45, but a few people already out.. Glassy, mellow, easy atmosphere at the Mar.. offshores flowing nicely, holding up the shoulder/head-high sets that cruised through here and there.. first half of my sesh north of the showers, north of the big group that invariably gathers in front of the showers.. I caught a bunch of fun, racy little rides.. one in particular where i furiously pumped and ducked and raced.. *kind-of* tucking into this little cover-up along the way. Then i saw the long-haired asian guy that pretty much rules it at Lindy catch this siiiick right at the far far north of the beach.. hmm... i hate to be the guy that paddles over to where someone else is catching good ones.. but i couldn't resist and paddled over.. immediately i stroked into this solid right, a ledgy take off and then a tapering, defined, meaty shoulder!!! fuck yeah!! i pumped, then bottom turned, then cranked as hard as i could off the top, came down, pumped a few more times.. then dug in and exhaled through a cuttie back into the white-water.. what!! this is lindy??!! but i wasn't complaining.. caught about 4 or 5 more of those.. just trading off with the asian guy.. We were laughing at each-other. i couldn't believe that nobody from the huge group just south of us paddled over!!! weird.. but.. who knows why?? then i finally, reluctantly, had to get out and go to work.. Believe it or not the parking lot was almost full at this point!! at fricking 8:30 on a weekday!! the water was packed with surfers and boogies and kayaks and longboarders and blue-crush-wannabes and shredders and grisled old carp dudes and little groms and shreddy girls and granny and dogs and just about everything else you can think of. The south and middle of lindy were probably the best beginner conditions i've ever seen there.. just totally mellow, but rideable..

anyway.. it was fun..

can anyone guess this spot?
can you guess?

hint.. it's between santa barbara and monterey

also.. check out these two waves in the channel islands
channel islands going off

channel islands going off