E's Surf Report: really really small..

Looks like June in jersey out there this morning. A few of the outer OB bars (Lincoln, Rivera, south of Sloat) initiated some breaking waves but mostly just small/dumpy/crumbly ugliness. Two surfers out at Sloat basically swimming around and air-surfing (like air-guitaring).. It's really small.. probably the smallest it's been this year. If you're a super beginner you could easily paddle out at OB, you might even be complaining about how flat it is. The NW windswell is way down at 1ft 8seconds. There is a SW groundswell in the water (2.6ft 16 seconds). I noticed the SW groundswell during my check this morning but the form of the set waves were getting broken-up and disheveled by the OB underwater topography.. i think that the mellow onshore isn't helping either.. I'd rate today a 2. Maybe those south swell pulses are presenting themselves in SC or up in Marin? dunno.. might be tough to score waves in the bay area today..

yesterday Jake and i took a celestial voyage through the grey morning haze to the barren, uninhabited netherworld of Orshmegma Street. Reveille at 7am after a night of Castro-street Gay-Pride revelry, Jocular Jake and i passed the peace pipe while considering our wave-riding options. Miniscule dribblers and a steel-grey ocean/sky welcomed us with foreboding hues. Nevertheless, a mid-OB sandbar was discovered and we sleuthed our way out to it. Just the two of us for miles and miles in either direction. Bay Area surfers seeminly surfed-out after a week of So-Cal-like sunshine and glassiness. Meatier south swell lines focussing on the bar every 7 minutes or so kept things at least semi-legit. We each fenagled 30 rides or thereabouts.. Jake worked on his backside game and reached up for a little lip dance a few times. Yours truly slanked into a handful of nuggety lefts and enjoyed one resounding lip-bash on a crumbly right. Most of the time we were literally standing (chest-deep water) in the lineup... waiting for some south-swell love or that rare wind-swell pocket.

anyhoooo.. i could write about slurf all day.. but.. alas.. time to get some work done..

BBR is in Chili now.. supposedly they're getting hammered down there.. maybe he's actually in the barrel.. right now!

Tomorrow i'm headed to NYC for a wedding... i'll be back next monday..

Rob Born sent me some eye-pleasing pics.. thanks Rob!!
North Santa Cruz County
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Moss landing.. glassy peaks, mellow locals
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