E's Surf Report: junky but rideable

just your average spring surf jam this morning at OB. Nothing spectacular or disgustingly epic but just enough sweetness to allow for a few good slides down the line and even a cutty or two. The south wind jarbled the sea-surface a bit but things weren't chaotically disheveled or anything. Super fun to surf with Robme, Lerm and Kaiser.. We pretty much had our own space for a while but were amazed to observe veritable legions of dudes paddling out all around us as the session wore on. It bummed me out a bit as these folk could have easily paddled to their own peak up or down the beach.. but.. no worries i guess. The whole lot of us drifted south until we had successfully floated beyond any shapely peak. I'm fairly certain that glimmers of the W groundswell originating from Japan (thanks blakestah) made its presence known.

I watched Lerm shimmy down a fun-looking left. Robme also took off on a chunkified lefty.. and Kaiser, as always, was taking off on everything he could... Kaiser and Robme are two dudes cast from a different ilk than me.. While i'm generally choosy and even conservative sometimes on the waves i take off on, these two chargers basically thrust themselves over the ledge on almost anything.. I've seen them both paddling into ugly, towering, threatening, obviously-gonna-close-out, sucking, fanged monsters.. just when i think they're going to pull back as any sensible person would.. they fucking go! I'm constantly amazed by it.. and inspired.. chargers..

random question - anyone know what kind of whales cruised the OB lineup a few weeks back? A friend of mine from Surfing magazine asks..

another note.. the niceness crew brunch at chez Robme that was tentatively planned for tomorrow has been officially rescheduled for Saturday June 7th.. after the dawn patrol (saturday style... a little later) at OB.. details forthcoming but it would be rightious to see all y'all chowing down on bagels and eggs after paddling around in summertime norcal slop at the beach.

also.. Ian's always bummin' cause he's usually the last person to post on the list.. soo.. here's his good vibrations post from last night..

"I'm always the last one to post.. damnit..
ck- I'm sorry to hear about your back, I hope you a quick recovery! My dad's back gets tweaked a lot from construction and what not. He's laid out for days.
scott- E.Coli in linda mar water? That is fricken disgusting. I was just in it yesterday morning and I just feel contaminated thinking about it.
blakestah- thank you for the forecast. I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say that you make my day with nice swell postings.
e- good catch on the swell, blakestah got on it and made us all happy! :D
Bug- Have an AWESOME time dude! Try and get some pics! Just tell them your bags have... uhm... snowboards in them. They don't charge for snowboards, and uhm.. well.. since tons of people take snowboards to mex, they won't be suspicious :D"

Teahupoo.. looking mellow
tpoo sickness

australia - burleigh head
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