Swimming area.
Hydrodynamics this morning
New kicks
Bodysurfed at OB this afternoon. Even mediocre conditions are fun. Inset is a photo from Noah Tafolla & Steve Rowell’s book “OB in the 60’s” which I picked up at The Black this weekend. #OceanBeach #SanDiego
Post bodysurf session walkabout OB.
Tell Tchaikovsky the news
Windansea Shack behind me today
That’ll be the day I go back to Annandale
The most interesting and peculiar photos I take are when the video stays on inadvertently. Big waves and rip currents and outgoing waves and more rips. Very enjoyable session.
The accessibility ramp on the sand is back. In the water I met a surfer from Brazil by way of L.A.. A fine mellow session.
Went to OB this morning and rode waves with bodysurfers and bodyboarders and Jeff who was riding a random piece of square plywood he found the week before. He was shredding on it.
“I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine”
Time for reflection
Sun protection
(how the week ends)
Weekend mornings are sometimes eventful! Some great corners to ride. Once again @lifeguardsofsandiego always awesome hooking me up with the hot hot water and fine foot wrapping. Stingray encounter # 5 in the last 2 years i think. First time at OB.
Gear
During one ride today I lost one of my handplanes. That ride was like going down a long steep snowy hillside on my back. Incredible speed. Thrilling. I got the handplane back at the ehd. A surfer brought it to shore. She said “I thought it would be easy to bring it in but it about killed me.” I thanked her.
Summery today. Every day fresh and new. Beach parking lot blacktop getting hotter. Today was Scripps.
Kneel
The sun has set / La Jolla
Went out at one spot, came back in a quarter mile north.
A good rideable wave rolls in and starts to fold over and breaks gradually. The boys I went to high school with would draw an iconic perfect tubular wave curling over and breaking just like that forever. People who ride waves chase such waves. Today the waves were warped as though seen through a funhouse mirror. They started then stopped and then started again. Required improvisation to have fun with. And I did.
Nice bodysurfing session if a bit choppy. Plus I got to see a handful of the Velella Velella (aka By-the-Wind-Sailors). The biology of these things is amazing. They are each a “colony” that feeds on plankton. They live in all the planet’s oceans but I’ve never seen or heard of them before. It’s a treat to get to see a few up close.
of course i like to say hello!
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