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| 104808 | 486 | How was your surf today?....share your stoke! | 2683 | Chilly Willy | Oct 4, 2016 | 2016-10-04T06:15:53-0400 | My local break in Seaside Park did a complete 180 after a week of churning NE slop. Last week, you could only surf at dead high tide due to the impossibly shallow sandbar stretching the length of the town. I showed up yesterday morning to hit the 9:30 AM high tide, but the nice lines rolling in weren't even breaking. I waited around for two hours thinking it might turn around. I saw a scrawny little fox running along the dunes while I waited, and I even made a trip back over the bridge and back to get some donuts and coffee -- but no dice on the waves. I came back later around low tide (foolishly without my surfboard thinking it would be too shallow) and saw beautiful rib-high crumbling lines rolling in with a guy on a longboard gracefully cruising and cutting some nice, fluid turns all the way from the outside and ending up way inside. The NE slop clearly redistributed the sand bars into a much better configuration. I scrambled back to my car and ran home for my board. I'm so glad I ran home. I rode my Phillips pig for two hours and had a blast, especially when the nip-high sets would roll in. What a simple pleasure to have a nice open face and carving a nice cutback with that board. I surfed for a while with one of my coworkers, which was nice and better than surfing alone. We had drifted down a block over those two hours, but my last wave was a long one that took me the entire block back to where we started. Perfect. |