Swells Continue

Saturday morning at 4AM the first forerunners of a 5' @ 16 second SSW swell began showing on the farshore buoy. This swell was joined a few hours later by a 5' @ 17 second WNW swell which continues as I write this post at 0600 hours Sunday morning.

Strong offshore winds fired up around noon yesterday with consistent speeds of up to 18 mph and continued throughout the day and night, finally backing off early Sunday morning. Winds at this writing are calm or very light from the ESE.

The Arena and point showed well (Tres-Eights looked good and had some size) but the swell was refracting inefficiently for many spots. Breaks were inconsistent, small and weekend crowded with lots of rubber clad bodies sitting...waiting. A couple stand up surfers out, cleaning up a lot of inside waves the prone surfers couldn't get to. Lot's of exercise and surfing for the SUPs.

My hazmat class went well but put me OOS for waves all day. Maybe take a look after church today and see if things have improved any. Leery of the crowd factor though. Busy week ahead for me. EMT Lab on Monday and then I've got to re-organize and extend the First Responder NBC/WMD curriculum for presentation next Saturday.