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alternative name | Blowholes |
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Surf Quality |
| | wave quality | Totally Epic |
| | experience | pros or kamikaze only... |
| | surf frequency | sometimes break |
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Wave |
| type | reef-rocky |
| | direction | left |
| | bottom | reef (coral, sharp rocks etc..) |
| | power | - hollow
- powerful
- ledgey
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| | normal length | normal (50 to 150m) |
| | good day | normal (50 to 150m) |
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Tide, Swell and Wind |
| | swell direction | - NorthWest
- West
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| | wind direction | - East
- NorthEast
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| | swell size | starts working at over 3.5m / 12ft and holds up to 5m / 16 ft and over |
| | tide position | low and mid tide |
| | tide movement | rising and falling tides |
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Author: Hazards LOCAL
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Spooners Cove Access |
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Experienced Surfers ONLY! The Left at Spooners Cove is the best big-wave break on the central coast! It can hold size up to 20ft if the winds are right.
This wave is located on the SOUTH Point of Spooners Cove and breaks towards the inside of the cove.
Drive into Montana De Oro and stop once you get the Ranger Station and main campgrounds entrance. Pull over onto the grass parking at the top of the cliff that overlooks Spooners Cove and the beach.
All the locals park at the top. DO NOT park at the beach parking lot. You will be immediately pointed out as an outsider and an idiot.
The view from the parking area is awesome. You are able to see three surf spots from here. You can view Lonesomes off the North Point, A-Frames in the middle (but way outside) of the cove, and Spooners breaking off the South Point of the Cove.
Spooners is the premier big-wave spot for the locals and for experienced big-wave chargers only!
Park on the cliff, and get dressed up there. Walk down to the beach via staircase towards North side of Parking Area.
Paddle out in the middle of the cove and then start angling towards the South. Spooners breaks in front of the protruding rock-reef finger and peels in towards the cove. |
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walk | instant access (<5 mn) |
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easy to find? | easy to find |
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public access? | public access |
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special access | Don't know |
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dangers | - rips / undertow
- rocks
- localism
- sharks
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Additional Surfing Infos |
| | If you've never been here, park and take the trail to the South of the parking area. Follow the trail along the cliffs that line the South side of Spooners Cove. You can sit on the cliffs and watch the locals charge. It's a great vantage point.
Take note of the large finger of rocks that sticks out. During high-tide the peak moves in to close to the cliffs and once you take off, your looking at a shoulder that is breaking on this jagged finger.
After the finger jets out, there is the deep cove where the wave disapates to nothing but a hump.
So medium tide going low is the call.
Watch out for sneaker sets. They can pop up really fast out there. Use the cliffs, and the locals to lineup out there.
A few locals like to lineup deeper than most, so dont go where they go. Watch them and then try to position yourself where you feel most comfortable.
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A wipeout here has dire consequences. If you get washed into the cliff your only option is the to scamper up the reef and all the way up the cliff.
If you have to do this, take off your leash and sacrifice your board for your life. Otherwise, your leash can get hung up on a rock and your board can be thrown by the waves, with you attached.
Quite a few blokes have had to scamper up the cliffs.
Once you wipeout, just remember to paddle North towards the channel.
Going right at Spooners is death wating to happen so dont ever go that way. Nothing but big threatening cliffs and another finger that sticks out even further causing a huge closeout barrel.
Visit the place on a negative tide and study the place. The geography of it all is quite interesting.
It is a world-class big-wave break and one of the few remaining un-exposed breaks south of San Francisco. The mags have run a few pics of it, but never say anything more than 'central coast.'
Be prepared for long paddles and long hold-downs. It is possible to get barreled out there if you take the Malloy approach and go it with an 8' gun.
During take-off if you can stall and slip into the barrel then your set. But only when the wind is breaking just right. Very few people have the experience to do this and even fewer take anything shorter than a 9-6 out there.
However, it is totally possible to take a 8-6 out there. Be aware that soon as you make the drop, there is a point that the wave looks like it's going to spit, but then backs off. Take this opportunity to carve the hell out of the wave. Believe me, you'll have a lot of fun doing instead of gunning for the shoulder. But you can only do this if you have the shorter equipment and it's not to hectic of a day with big cross-over swells.
Experts, Experts, Experts ONLY!!! |
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comment by Anonymous, 2007-09-19 16:18:55