10 November 2009

Birthday Waves (HMB Jetty)

Sincere thanks to King Neptune for serving up some tasty waves at the Jetty on my birthday. (And thanks to Scott for baking me an exceptionally tasty chocolate cake.) Just when I thought I was going to take away nothing from the surf session but duck-diving practice, I rode a really nice right on my fish, followed soon by another that wasn't too shabby. Stoked!
 
That's Jeff Clark, Mavericks big wave pioneer, cleaning up on his SUP (near the end).

I have a rule that I never work on my birthday, so I took a vacation day, gathered a couple buddies with flexible schedules, and headed to the coast for a rare midday surf on a weekday. It was nice to be able to check the surf/wind forecast and tides and then pick, to the best of my ability, the most optimal time/place to surf, without having to bookend it around the corporate schedule. There were a dozen or so people out (perhaps the recession is to blame?), but it wasn't crowded. Surfline had under-reported the surf height, which was up to shoulder to head-high, and it was a bit more breezy than forecast, with a fair number of closeouts, but I ain't complaining. And now I'm dialed back into the fish, ready to strip off the wax and pack Nemo up for our trip to New Zealand and Australia.

6 comments:

  1. Happy birthday, Miss Scorpio. Hope you have a great time in Oz.

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  2. Looks like fun! Happy birthday. When do you go down under?

    Michael

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  3. We leave Saturday on a red-eye.

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  4. Happy Birthday, fellow November baby! Glad you had fun. That's a great rule too. This will be my first year of not working on my birthday. I will also get to surf on my birthday and that will be the first time that has happened.

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  5. Happy Birthday! Hope you get some good waves.

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