Session 39 - Mar 15 - Lane, Cowells, Hook

Saturday Mar 15, 11 - 3, 6'8 Taylor

3 spots, 1 session?? I'm making the rules as I go here -- so yeah -- 3 spots, 1 session. It was all on the same board so it doesn't count as 2, at least that's what I determined before by past logic so might as well keep it consistent. We were on a bit of a surf wild goose chase this morning, pretty eventful hunt. Ramin from work and a friend of his were in town, so I met up with them at the Lane around 10:30. Made Ramin wait a while as I was lazy and slept in and ate cereal, sorry buddy. So we met up and there was a kayak contest going on at the Lane, and they were telling surfers to stay out of the way (with varying levels of success) but still making a pretty strong effort. So we decided to check some other spots. Spot 1, windy. Spot 2, windy but doable, maybe we shoulda gone there? Lane? Good! But full of kayakers. But we decided to go anyways it wasn't that crowded and there were plenty of other surfers. So we suited up and as we were getting down the stairs, a policeman came up and said it's closed, you'll get a ticket when you come out...he did say you can surf at the Slot or Cowell's though, but nowhere else. So we thought we'd go to the Slot. So we went and tried to get out there, but it was actually a surprisingly strong current not wanting me at the slot, wanting me at Indicators, where I would get a ticket...bah! Lots of paddling, made it out to Slot, caught one lousy wave and was then already at Indicators in the kayak zone, didn't want to paddle back out there again, too much effort too little reward, so let myself continue to get washed down all the way to outside Cowells...Ramin and Taylor had walked down there themselves to met them and we had some discussion about what to do, I decided I don't want a stinking ticket so left. Walked up the Cowell's stairs, snuck past the police, and went to the car. In wetsuit drive, checked a few other spots but wound up at the Hook, was a slight negative low tide and sorta crowded but we'd been on enough of a chase already so that's where we went. Turned out actually pretty fun -- midday weekend crowds at the Hook so pretty tight out there but I had no problem catching a lot of quick lefts and some OK rights sitting a bit inside. Good to get out in the water. Sun came in and out mixed with rain and even mixed with HAIL, interesting weather pattern today. Got nicer as the day went on, as did the surf, good enough for surf session #2, which I'll post on now. Good to have some surf company though as always, thanks for making the drive Ramin, next time we'll get something a little better. He's off to Sydney tonight...lucky.