Surfline, save us!
The old chestnut “be careful what you wish for, it might just come true” has never meant more to California’s surfers who suffered through one of worst summer/autumn dry spells in recorded history are now entering their tenth consecutive day of mega swell. Shorelines being lit right up. From Santa Cruz’s Steamer Lane to Ventura’s Rincon all the way down to La Jolla’s Blacks, ten days of big and bigger surf and counting.
Early “stoke” and “glee” has given way to an overwhelming sense of dread as Golden State sliders check the forecast and see phrases like “new NW energy moves in” or “swell in water being reinforced,” wondering if shoulders can take any more. If marriages, family well-being, employment can take any more too.
A brutal run that, currently, has no end in sight.
California, recognizing an impending collapse, has urged residents to “stop going to the beach” though surfers, as is their wont, are not listening very well.
But do you live here?
Are your shoulders sore?
Is marriage failing?
More importantly, what have you been riding?
Share, please.
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Surfing is for losers, scoundrels, and Brazilians. Don’t do it.
Shoulders hurt. Been surfing. 7’0 Exercise, check!
Mary Poppins shout out😜
declined the oceanside girls’ surf view and/or hated :The End of Us?~
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I fell behind on my BG reading and missed this pic. Check out Annie Bosko, her grandfather started Boskovitz farms near Ventura a long time ago. she was on Dwight Yoakam’s SiriusXM show a few weeks ago.
i will search…tanks alot!
call 1-800-squirrels~
dirty jobs? mike rowe? have done 45% of them…got bees? need a plumber? sump pump tech? b-b-q- place needs the smoker clean-up…MEET ME AT JOE’S~
Christmas shopped at World Market then walk across the street to Joe’s for a cocktail… we had the leave the car and take an Uber after two drinks😵💫
either light up or leave me alone-
What if you don’t have a Sprinter to transport a quiver?
epic add-on~
any disabled surf camps and I’ll answer the dozen leftist’s requests…FUCK OFF!
put fresh banana on that boat! and fresh tuna in my truck~
was not a clean swell. many bumps, cross chop and Rincon? utube showed a dude walking his goats.
How’s about a shot of ya front yard then…
suing the shit out of Richard Attenboruough..
push the red button~
“So much action I forgot to check El Porto on S_Line”…Inertian Man
Ha… I wish that I was tired from too much surfing. Waves have been non-stop on Kona side of BI. Alas, imma too busy working to get more than a single session a week. 😢
it’s shit here, Chas.
I’ve been riding my bike.
Meanwhile Florida’s winter has been even sh*ttier than usual, if thats even possible.
Noah’s second coming is just warming up
These type of swells are learning lessons for a vast majority of Californian surfers. That lesson being duck diving a wavestorm may be more difficult than popping up.
I was out, yesterday, with people bailing normalish boards when big sets rolled through. I was mad, as I almost got hit, but also understood. Exhausted surgically-repaired shoulder burning.
Did you find it difficult to duck dive your Wavestorm?
youre like the two old hecklers in the muppets
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I kind of want to know what your wife‘s impression of the Bobby Quad is though. I’ve been leering at that board model for quite some time and remain undecided.
Absolutely love at first paddle. I was jealous, TBH.
But do you live here?—it’s more “suffering” here than “living” here.
Are your shoulders sore?—try chin-ups, you goddamn whimps.
Is marriage failing?—divorce rates in the USA have been falling over the last decade and it’s currently around 50%, so this is a push.
More importantly, what have you been riding?—your mom and a Panda shiitake, not necessarily in that order.