1989....
Hurricane Gabrielle in 1989...the big clean day when the rest of the Outer Banks was still huge and windy.
Perfect north winds and hollow peeling lefts. The paddle out was about 100 yards out past the end of the pier, on the outer sandbar, and it was breaking from way on the north side of the pier, all the way to south side with a few different lineups to sit at....and holding size the whole way through. The water was that light blue/green color and there were dolphins everywhere, surfing the waves with us. I even rode a nice smaller set wave behind two dolphins, and then saw another two dolphins swim up the face of the wave (a smaller double overhead wave), and then do a huge half front flip over the back of the wave, like it was seaworld....as I surfed underneath it looking up and cheering.
That first clean morning at Frisco Pier, and the next morning at Rodanthe Pier, and then perfect Ferry Signs in the afternoon, were some of the best waves I've ever surfed anywhere...and I've surfed some good spots in Baja and Nor Cal/So Cal during some good swells.
I just wish I could catch some more days like that now.
comment by Anonymous, 2007-07-27 13:59:50
Fickle....
Fickle spot! Hard to catch good. Not to say it can't be done, you may end up skunked and not so stoked. Winds have a tendency to blow out the surf when they finally swing offshore. Or either its a wind swell to begin with and won't hang around long.
comment by hatty tripper, 2007-01-23 19:05:35
TOO EPIC!!!
yesterday I went to hatty like i do every time there is a good swell, but instead of just going out in rodanthe i insisted that we took the time to go check frisco since it wasnt even low tide yet. When we pulled up to the pier it was absolutly going off. It was way way way outside like 200 yards past the peir, perfect glass probably like 8 or 9 foot on the sets!! I shit you not... but anyways i was pissed cause no body was out and i didnt want to charge out with just me and one of my buddies. Oh well later we heard that there have been lots of hammerheads being caught in frisco so its probably good we didnt go out. And we caught rodanthe pretty good so oh well
comment by Anonymous, 2007-08-11 05:54:40