E's Surf Report: a few waves in san mateo county

WNW wind raging along most of the coast this morning. The South swell somewhat evident along the northern stretch of OB. A peak looked to be firing off potentially appetizing, juicy lefts near the windmill every few minutes. The wind licked my right ear as i gazed out to sea, but hadn't whipped or hacked the surface too badly yet. I'd say it is/was surfable, but nobody on it, and i wasn't feelin' the probable gruesome paddle marathon and predominance of close-outs and steep-drop/mushy shoulder combos. Middle of the beach flatter.. messy at Sloat. Soutward i sojourned. Wind raging strait onshore through Pollutica.. but i actually noticed an interesting peak or two at Lindy.. though not enough to corral me into the lot for a closer look.. southward past grey whale beach, montara (does montara ever work?), haunted moss beach, monster mavs.. jetty.. wind almost offshore at the jetty.. tide super low.. making it easy to scale down the rocks strait to the lineup. Watched a rippah shred apart a nice wedgy right as i was paddling out.. he took it in and i was left to my lonesome for about 25 minutes.. Caught the three best waves of my session while solo.. all three classic jetty bounce/wedges.. rights rife with little power pockets and energy boosters.. I kooked on one but stayed pouncy and balanced on the other two.. ripped out a few high-speed turns that felt nice. best waves probably about head-high... but not very many of them. then Kaiser and Jeff Clark joined the lineup.. i thought that when the master of mavericks paddled out, that would be the end of the waves i'd get.. but.. he was mellow and paddled way to the outside, leaving us to scrap for most of the waves that came through.. just not the biggest biggies (about 1 every 25 minutes). I witnessed him kook out pretty bad on his first wave, bobbly take-off then falling on a cutback.. but on later waves i heard/saw/felt the deep "DUUGDE!!!" of a refined, powerful, deeply practiced frontside cutty emanate from the inside rail of Jeff Clark's surfboard.. Watched Kaiser catch a few good ones too.. saw a nice backside turn from the reputable mr. Kaiser Sose. If the south swell is really here.. it was barely showing at the jetty.. the sets came through every 10 minutes or so, and were pretty fun.. but.. not raging or anything.. there were some huge lulls as my session waned to a close at the jetty.. maybe the extreme low tide finally shut things down?

I heard that the middle of OB was on fire saturday afternoon?? barrels and lashings?? any stories or tube time for the niceness crew?

I enjoyed some manic, raucous waves saturday in Los Osos, near SLO.. surfed the beachbreak just north of Hazards and found some crazy/ledging lefts and one or two high-speed/rifling rights before the wind just utterly hacked it to shreds. I caught this one, huge wave, maybe my biggest of 2003 so far.. probably about 8 or 9 foot face.. but pretty damn thick and out-of-control.. i committed myself before i fully realized the scope of what i was committing too.. stroke into a backside/pig-dog/steepy take-off.. missile-launched down the line for a second.. then witnessed the gargantuan wall rising and sucking and lurching toward the inside sandbar.. with me about to get annihilated.. straitened out just in time to have the whole world crash down and explode behind me.. sucking me down and around and down and around for a while.. then i popped up and paddled back for more!!

ahh.. work time now.. later y'all..

just in case you haven't seen this yet..
umm.. yeah!

same wave.. different day.. looks fun eh?
thwack