There's a nice low blowing through tonight, with seas to 9 meters. I noticed our local Fat Bast...ds club called off their Muir Creek to Port Renfrew trip today. That would have been a rather interesting outing to say the least. I was talking to an acquaintance the other week who was up-island paddling in early October, when we had the intense 940 Millibar low. He was at Tofino. An 18 meter swell was running that afternoon, with winds over 90 knots further up island. The locals said they hadn't seen it that big in eons. The web cam showed the bay closed completely out, just walls of white water. My friend said the foam zone (the bubbling froth steeped up along the foreshore) was an unheard of 5 meters high (15 feet). I wonder what it would be like to paddle in that. No one was surfing that day. He got out that week though, in both his river boat and his sea yak. I think it was a rather unforgettable week of solo paddling for him I take it (he is highly skilled). Doug Lloyd Victoria BC *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
<Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:15:15 -0800 <From: "Doug Lloyd" <dalloyd_at_telus.net> <Subject: [Paddlewise] Foam Zone < ......early October, when we had the intense 940 Millibar low. He was at <Tofino. An 18 meter swell was running that afternoon, with winds over 90 <knots further up island...... I wish I could have been there to see that! Was that 18 meters recorded at a buoy or was it an observation from one of the lighthouses? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:24:07 -0500 From: Mike Dziobak <mdziobak_at_mtu.edu> Subject: re: [Paddlewise] Foam Zone <Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:15:15 -0800 <From: "Doug Lloyd" <dalloyd_at_telus.net> <Subject: [Paddlewise] Foam Zone < ......early October, when we had the intense 940 Millibar low. He was at <Tofino. An 18 meter swell was running that afternoon, with winds over 90 <knots further up island...... I wish I could have been there to see that! Was that 18 meters recorded at a buoy or was it an observation from one of the lighthouses? Mike, et al: That was what my friend said the buoys were reading. I didn't get confirmation of my own. The individual in question isn't know to exaggerate (a huge problem/issue in the paddling community, listservers, etc. - I know, as I follow-up on stories for Sea Kayaker Magazine, so have to check out details and confirm observations, etc). I was simply reporting what he said. I well imagine the swell was high. I had a friend out that way a week or two ago, he said there was a lot of new debris registering rather high up, crammed into in various crevices and cracks. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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