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Session: Heat wave!

Written by DrC123

Tuesday June 24 2008 10:29:40 PM

Surf spot: Seal Beach Pier Northside, United States of America

Surf Trip: Spring Break ( 28 March 2008 - 28 March 2008)

Session's Rate:

Wind direction: Offshore

Wind Strength: Light

Nb waves ridden: lots

Length of the surf session: 3 hours

Surfboard ridden: 9'2

Fins: 2+1

Weather and water temp: 75F/70F

Waves height: 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft

Waves Quality:
- Fun
- Fast
- Hollow

Waves Shape:
- Walls
- One peak
- Multipeaks
- Bowl

Description:

Hot, hot, hot! The lazy hazy days of summer hit out of the June Gloom banishing the dense early morning fog to Davey Jones locker. 90 F at the beach, over 100 F in downtown LA and 118 in Palm Springs! The water warmed up, seemingly over night, from a cold 56 F to a warm 70 F! A massive high pressure system over Mexico, early morning offshore winds and a combination of southern hemi swells ... surf for a solid week!

Started out on the dawn patrol at Barracuda's over by the north wall of the river jetty at Ray Bay. Waist to chest with the occasional head high peaks. A little walled as you hit the inside boomerang, needed the right wave and the right tide to make it across. Finished up the week at Northside Seal Pier as the minus low tide drained out the river. Clean, hot waist to chest with up to shoulder high left peaks off the jetty or rights off the middle sandbank.

Switched back and forth between my 9'2" performance longboard and my 7'2" SuperFish.