2/25/08 I stopped along the strand at Huntington Beach this morning to see what our stormy weather was doing in the way of big surf. Things weren't massive; the waves weren't all that tall, but had quite a bit of water too them. Like my friend Ken Fry, the waves had no shoulder and would break in a line a couple hundred yards long on the beach. There was plenty energy to chew up a kayak and spit it out. I wished I was in there, but hey, some of us have to work for a living! By three o'clock, I was on the water back in Newport hoping to find a little energy left. As I paddled out, there was no wave action hitting the jetties. It looked like what swell there was heading south and skipping the shoreline. The paddle to BAR was a mostly calm affair. The bathymetry around BAR always seems to scoop up a little energy and my favorite rock was getting a bit of a cleaning. Low tide closed out the back, so I just hung out on the side as the small but powerful swells rolled by. Not wanting to swim, I took it easy and enjoyed the sound of the surf crashing on the rocks. I paddled home thinking I'm way behind on my paddling this month; if I'm lucky, I might squeeze in seven. I'll have to think of some special way to atone in March. Mark Sanders www.sandmarks.net *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Feb 26 2008 - 00:19:47 PST
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