E's Surf Report

dude, sorry i missed ya. was out late and woke up with a nasty sinus infection.

great artwork and neat story.

clean early am waves today among the rain drops admittedly small ---reminded me of a young hispanic girlfriend from years ago ---petite and shapely, and a lot of fun --- only saw two other takers ---- nice post sesh vibe at the java beach

mig.. i might have been out there with ya. a bit south of java beach. did you have a cap on? i had a brown shortboard.

yeah. i love the small stuff. this morning was tight and technical. small and speedy. rainy and lonely. Cheers to Mark who paddled out.

All in all a good morning to surf. Rain keeps the crowds away.

Yep, I've had days like that.

yes i had the cap and green railed fun machine..
saw a dark haired guy...he ripped a few nice turns out there ...board looked more white than brown though. Was Mark the shaved head guy?

Oh yeah, last night was fun. Not as clean as the daytimers got but still fun. Damn crowds though. I paddled out at a break behind my house all by myself and not ten minutes later, I saw three or four guys less than 700 yards away! Arrrgghhh.

My first ride was a nice long right followed by a facefull of whitewater for about 5 minutes. Got stuck on a treadmill. I drifted far enough north to grett the invaders that were less than 700 yards away from my start point. Last wave was a really fun left. Steep face and walled up and maybe slightly overhead. Got barreled a bit too. I carved up the face a little to get speed under the lip and then dropped back down the face. But the nose submarined on me and I did the aqua-tumble. A guy paddling out saw me and gave me congrats on the barrel. That was a nice cap-off for the evening.

I gotta work on the pig-dog thing. I stand too straight on back-hand barrels. Usually, I get it in the back of the head.

yeah.. i guess my board is more tannish-white/mocha. I'm tall with dark short hair. I saw you with the green rails. you floated south. I flashed you a peace sign. I saw you get a few lefts down there. niice. Yup.. that was Mark with shaved head.

surfing in the rain is fun.

back-side barrles. I do floaties too.

My schedule has eased up some lately and I was able to get out late yesterday afternoon. Small & mushy, but more fun than it looked from the beach - or maybe it's just that I hadn't been out in a long time. In any case, it sure felt good to get wet and salty.
Even smaller this a.m. but looked clean with a couple folks hittin' it. Currently stuck in my cube, with the drizzle coming down. Go get some before the fecal count goes up!

damn, sharing a peak with e .... that's like hangin' with a celebrity .... now that I know you by sight ..i'll hit you up for an autograph or something next time

ha ha.. whatever mig.. i think that i almost cut you off on that one right. sorry about that if i got in your way.. oops.

ok.. back to work!!

e - did you say dark "short" hair?

BTW - the pod is about 12gbytes full by now. About half of it from live material from archive.org I am so addicted to this thing!!!

sweet story & art, e.

"short hair" -- when did you cut the locks?

TINY out there this a.m....but as others have mentioned...sorta fun in the rain. especially for post St. Patty's! hit a little peak with Kaiser and another buddy. mellow times on the micro-peelers followed by a serious score at Panc*ke P**nt! happy Friday, all.

little kauai ripper -koa smith

cool to name your kid "koa". last name ought to be "wood" though ---- story here
http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2005/03/18/sports/sports01.txt

Archive.org rips.

Listened to the very first phil and friends with Trey and Kimock trading licks at the Fillmore, insane guitar work. Nobody can touch Kimock's tone.

For panic heads, www.livewidespreadpanic.com, they are going to be releasing a lot of the this coming spring run directly after the show, like 48 hours after. Fox run will be first and will be free of charge if you register now.

I have no idea how you guys surf "tight and technical" when it's 2 feet! [max?] Briefly took out the Flying Brick and despite feeling like a flea on a giant plank was barely catching anything. Fortunately managed to pearl that beast once - I know, takes talent - so it still counts as a really hardcore session. Most grueling part was carrying the 500lb board across the highway. Oof! Goofy, kinda fun morning.

yay Jose!..great artist cool head..he took up surfing a couple of years ago i recently saw him hit the lip at montara. like tina turner, he's a fast learner.

i would love to have the day off and a longboard

ps. anyone selling a cheap soft top or longboard?

if anyone can name who i stole that tina turner line from you are good..

f.f.f.friday!

whatup e! short hair? no way! yo, so i'm coming up to the city tonight... will be around most of tomorrow up there. weather permitting, surf?? either way, jam! gimme a holler...

happy weekend, niceness!

E! get back to me on the band thing as soon as you can... otherwise we'll need to dig up someone else.

Thanks!
robert@bagoftoysmusic.com
Tait

I was at the 99 Phil show with Kimock and Trey, I used to manage the resteraunt at the Fillmore, worked there for six years, best gig in town, write menu, count money, watch show, eat ,drink, smoke, count money and go home, I quit when clear Chanel took over, bastards.

Home sick today, being sick sucks... I hate wasting the sick days.

kookdom! you RULE! thanks for the tip re: PANIC.

found a peak and shared with elias this a.m. after
a groggy morning. good stuff. traded boards and stories.
one other fellow out just south of us for a while....
best story i heard....from my pal leo...."dude, i woke
up this morning in my den. did not even attempt to
stumble down the hall."

cheers ya'll!

and THE WOLFPACK WON. Uconn is next?...yikes.

Don't get too comfortable with the small waves yet. The surf is on the rise. Looks like it'll be kinda biggish and junky but maybe some protected places might have surf for the weekend.

Gee, do you suppose there are any super secret local spots that like the SE wind generated by these fronts? Started a second wipeouts photo page but haven't linked to the home page yet. You can get there from here: http://www.surfhumor.com/Photo%20Galleries.htm Don't know if I've shared this funky shot before. Incoming Inner Bar Friendly or Doorway to Doom?

That's an anvil coming down = DOOM! I can just hear everyone who reads this blog saying "Yup, I know that feeling..."

-4LOS

It looks like a big mouth about to chomp down some surfer sushi.

crazy photo Bruce - (also.. i still need to get you those keys!!! argh! sorry Bruce. i suck!)

Lerm - sinus-infection! that friggin blows man. sorry to hear that.

Jocular - i'll give you a call.. i was thinking about coming down to SC tomorrow to do that cool hike with my mom. but.. if it rains??

Tait - yeah.. i called some of the people in my band but they weren't there. I'd say assume that Open Realm won't be able to make it if you have to make decisions immediately. I'll probably talk to them tonight and can let you know this weekend.

I feel like surfing.

Bruce, there is that rock ledge reef break about 300 yards south of Fort Funston that's protected by the kelp beds and the cliff. Other than that, the answer is most certainly no. Oh shoot, I mentioned Fort Funston. Oh, I did it again.

Classic Joel Tudor quote -
All I said was, that 80-90% of everybody that surfs gets stoned. What are you gonna do? No one wants to talk about it. My use is recreational. I like to smoke and go surf, so crucify me. They didn�t even print half of the shit I said. I also said, �What�s better? Smoking a joint recreationally or drinking a beer in the parking lot, and drinking ten more beers, losing your health, getting out of shape, and drinking around your kids, and then your kids start drinking? The way they put it was, �Yeah, I smoke pot.� It just didn�t come across the way I was explaining it. It�s more of a spiritual thing. It�s a lifestyle as much as you might want to bash it. It�s one of the first communicating things you see if you run into a surfer in a foreign country. He�s making hand gestures to roll a joint. It�s the passing of the peace pipe. I grew up around Nat and those guys, and Nat would say, "Take a hit. Shit. I won a world title. I won five. You think this is gonna hurt you? It�s not going to hurt at all. There are guys surfing on heroin and you�re smoking weed. Who cares? You aren�t doing anything else." That�s how it always weighed out around those guys. They were really proud of me being stoned instead of boozing it up. If anything, it�s going to motivate you to go out even when the waves are small. Or say you�re in a contest and the waves look like shit and everyone is complaining. You can go to your car, turn on some jazz, take a hit and get amped up. You go out and have a blast. When you lose you�re like, "Who cares? I�m still surfing." I can�t tell you how many contests I�ve been to where someone makes an ass of themselves because they lost when they could�ve just walked away and taken a puff instead of making a scene and embarrassing themselves.

He still surf better than you, and gets psid for it. And is probably not in a cubicle in San Francisco.

B O R I N G . . . .

weed has different effects for different folks. Like Joel says it motivates me to surf 1' waves, but at the end of the day I'll refuse to listen to anyone and get pissed off if someone is within 100 feet of me. For others, the opposite is true.

What finaly got me to quit is cleaning out my pipe and bongs. That resin tar shit is in your lungs at the same capacity. Nasty. And eating it gets you way tooo high for daily enjoyment. Anyway..I'm into endorphin highs and getting old (32). night kids.

DESCRIBING YOUR FACE
SOUTH OF THE BORDER DEPT.

AAHHH!!! it's the chupacabra!!

No hard feelings 10/20. You speak truth.

10/20liketobe80 - at 32 you're not getting old. You're not even a grown-up yet. So go ahead and lite one up.

yo don't eat the bong/pipe resin - roll it in a joint with a bit of tabacco and smoke it.

E!

Not a huge hurry, but it is next Saturday, so the sooner the better...but take your time to convice the others. we'd love to play with you guys.

Thanks!
Robert Tait
robert@bagoftoysmusic.com

HA! I was thinking about a secret spot near a chain mexican food resturant and a Texaco gas station. At least three times this season SC was totally blown and my friends called to tell me they had off shore winds at Kookland. Morning high tide, I hear. Just bring your beginner repellant and Kevlar hood. Every time I surf there I swear it off for a few months. My masochistic tendencies must be returning.

yeah dude, but I started smoking in 7th grade. What is that? 12 years old? So 20 years of smoking? Now I want to do shit like go to school at Stanford, get some kind of initials after my last name, etc. You know, new shit.

Bagel - there's a softop for sale on Surfpulse. Not mine.

Description:
I have a 8 foot Softop surfboard I no longer use. It's in good condition, no dents on the bottom, only a few nicks in the soft top. Comes with a leash. $175 OBO

Just get a vaporizor 10/20, way better than pipe or bong. I gave up the bong a few months back after getting the Vap, tastes like herb should taste, exactly how it smells. Although I do admit i am slowing down a bunch with age. Kids will put the breaks on for me too.

Growing up in SC mountains everybody puffed before surfing, I just can't really do it anymore unless I am surfing a mellow point break or something. Need the mental capacity for OB.

sweet thanks dennis!

funny 10/20-80 good job on quitting

And remember, if you're going to buy a vaporizer you need to do it right. the only way to go:

http://shop.grasscity.com/shop/grasscity/vapormed.html

don't mess with the cheap shit.

pimp and burn in '05

Checked mid-beach at low tide on the off chance there'd be lunchables. Yes!! Clean! Moderate offshores! Small, but there was at least one spot where they were breaking with definitely rideable size and shape--even inhabitable microtubules. A few other chill folks out in the rain pulling some impressive stuff on waves this size.

way to go with the rainy lunchables, kloo

OK. I'm otta here. I think there's some nuggets to be had. The bouy is up from this am and the wind is offshore. It's Farking Freeday!

God, I hope there is some juice out there. Just checked the bouy and it was a SOLID 4.6ft @ 5 sec.

At least the wind is offshore.

What is it this year? We have been getting raining days with offshore winds. This is not normal. My 7th grade science teacher told me to go outside, face south, stick your arms out to the side. If you feel wind in your face, it is gonna rain.

Of course all you trannies not from California (or even you tranny-asses from SoCal) wouldn't know about this. Hence, the reason I share it.

LONG LIVE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (don't call it NorCal...unless you live in Sacramento and have a big truck with a girlie sporting big hair and a smile!)

(or if your bvb)

great im gonna miss fun waves..i hate making plans!!

SE wind is normal for storm winds. This is a more southerly storm, so winds aren't going to be December style south. Seeing you're from the california public school system, I understand. Next week count on straight up NW for months on end, so enjoy if you windsurf. I'll be flying up to Portland with my bike and coasting downwind home.

Well, I am only in the 9th grade so what can you expect....

nice Rochelle shots ... here's 15 yr old Alana Blanchard taking first place at pipe earlier this week

Where's Dick Mora today? Failing at being local. Pathetic. Fort Point is mush and besides you're an advertisement to trillions of tourists walking the bridge that surfing in N.cal is kewl or whatever. You can have it, that's the crapiest left around anyways. That and you have to drive through millions of lights and stopsigns to get there.

Swell still building: 4.9 ft @ 6 sec!

It might hit 5.2 ft @ 7 by sundown......

the peak on the left is the telling thing; it's been dropping steadily for a few days, and not much left:

the "big" windjunk peak to the right is going north-west, i think, so isn't hitting the beach much.

how do you post pics again?

So Boring here without you too.

Getting stoned at work, at home, on the street, in the car, whacking off to the net and surfing in your squalid 21'st.comcubicle, I miss you.
Nice rhetoric from your slaves. All these responses from the pacifica mutton head trialer park laptops: 'B V, you're a fuckingtranyyytooblahbarffffbarfbvbvbbarfbvd blahahfortpointbigwavesMAVSbigeattommiesballsthemybeach hairy balls your a...beat it LAkook' or-, 'Bad Vibe must be a bummernbeingyoublahtrannyhoodedknights of columbus shitbvibehatecrimeargghbloggerrggggghhhbbarf.bark neighborhood.' Sign up today here______________for the doom. BE ONE OF US.
Getting back to IT, IT is still rape, all of you naming and calling and shaming all the S W 10 spots.
It'll be more crowded because of you and your minions, simple fact. More about how I am feeling later.
I have such a good time at the Fort, one of my five fave waves, ( you tell me? Where is home?) plus the guys there are the best ever - rotten uncaring types with longer blacker tools than you can imagine. Never meant to express such vitrilic barf in the dawn of my personal renaiisance hence, you.

hittin' the pipe again e?

IamAtrannyLAXwhoIShellaKewlBecauseIwriteLikeTheGuyFromStarTrek.WilliamShattnerIsWhoIWriteLikeBarfBarf.OKIAmFromLAXSoWhatDontMakeFunOfMe.OKITriedHardToBeANorthernCaliforniaLocalButThePoorBrokePeopleWhoWereActuallyBornHereWhoGotDisplacedByTheTransplantsLikeMyselfFoundOutIamFromLAXSoTheGameIsUP.IAmGettingVeryOldAndHaveNoNaturalAthleticAbilityButAtLeastIAmGoodAtWritingLikeSomeUNIXProjectManagerAtSomeDotComWayTheHellInTheBooniesCalledSantaClara.

Hey BVB. How'd you know I'm from the Pacifica trailer parks? Wow.

Bad Vibe channels Kerouac!
You tellim' bro

mysterious pic I saw on the internet

Happy I Am Alive Day!

that was me

basically would eat you alive

more flying lawnmowers

iambvb.commietransplantkooksgohomerapevanartandiliketolookatdudesdicks

fort point and kelly's cove local piece of bullshit.
what da hell do you guys think u r, some kind of a gods just a buch of fucking kooks.
Always bitching about other people, calling people off to go back to sloat or pacifica...hahh funny I see this so call kelly's cove and fort point locals at sloat and linda mar a bunch of times.
The adults do show respect, cause the grew out of it , but the youngsters still minded fuck full of turd.
Mr. Sloat

You f***in' a**hole. If I ever see you at my break again, I'll beat you senseless and hold you underwater til you turn blue. I'm sick of your big mouth and cocky attitude. You can't surf but drop in on me constantly. That's it. The last time. Go back to where you came from. If I see your car, I'm gonna slash your tires and key it from one end to the other. D*ckwad bastard. This message is not directed at anyone. I just wanted make a stupid angry post too.

Hey Mexi,

Check out this article on Eucalyptus removal and replacement by Redwood trees (Berkeley Hills).
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/11185273.htm

Redwoods planted in East Bay hills

FORESTRY AGENCIES, STUDENTS COOPERATE

By Martin Snapp

Knight Ridder

A week has gone by, but Erica Smith is still covered with poison oak rash.

Smith, a senior at the University of California-Berkeley, is president of the Cal Forestry Club. Last week, she and other club members were crawling on their bellies through the underbrush in the Berkeley and Oakland hills, planting redwood seedlings. They were joined by volunteers from the Claremont Canyon Conservancy and ranger/naturalists from the East Bay Municipal Utility District who were working on their own time.

They planted about 340 trees near Grizzly Peak Boulevard in Berkeley, and an additional 750 trees in Oakland's Claremont Canyon.

It was the final stage of a two-year project to remove fire-prone, non-native species, such as eucalyptus, Monterey pine and acacia, and replace them with more fire-resistant native species, including oaks, bays, big-leaf maples and redwoods.

The project is an unprecedented display of cooperation between two entities that are usually at loggerheads: UC-Berkeley and neighborhood environmental groups. In addition, the East Bay Municipal Utility District is contributing logistical support, and East Bay Regional Park District fire tanker trucks will irrigate the seedlings for the next two years until they're able to survive on their own.

The first stage took place last year, when UC fire prevention workers tore out the non-native species, most of them eucalyptus trees. Even before the removal, members of the Claremont Canyon Conservancy were collecting indigenous seed stock to germinate the replacements.

The seeds -- about 1 1/2 pounds, enough to germinate thousands of trees -- were stored under carefully controlled temperature and humidity conditions at UC-Davis until they were ready to be germinated at IFA Nurseries in McKinleyville.

Two weeks ago, Joe Engbeck, president of the Claremont Canyon Conservancy, got the phone call he'd been waiting for: ``They're ready to go into the ground.''

The seedlings are only 18 inches high, but redwoods grow quickly.

``Remember the redwoods that the Piedmont Rotary Club planted in Claremont Canyon in the 1970s?'' asked Tom Klatt, UC-Berkeley's manager of emergency preparedness, who has been the university's point person on the project. ``They're already 60 to 80 feet tall.''

Now comes the hard part: waiting.

``Seedlings are very vulnerable at this stage,'' Engbeck said. ``I'm worried about the weather we're having right now, especially the wind. It's blowing too hard for my babies.''

As for Smith, her case of poison oak is still raging, but she doesn't mind.

``I'm used to itching constantly. It goes with being a forester,'' she said. ``Besides, it's worth it to know that future generations will be able to go up there and enjoy these beautiful redwoods, just as I enjoy going to the UC Botanical Gardens or Founders Grove.''

FUCK FUCK FUCK

Steve O, Cool story, We just planted six redwood trees, nine California buckeye and a couple California Black Oaks on San Bruno Mountain. But this doen't seem the place to talk trees, or is it?