Session 129 - Aug 30 - SC Beachy

Saturday Aug 30, 11-1, 9'8 Junod

Bennett Bros Surf Academy is open for business.

This past Labor Day weekend had Matt and Erica make the drive down from Corvallis for the OSU-Stanford football opener Thursday night. I won't blog any further about that -- although honestly I kind of root for both teams (and even wear both tshirts). The real fun got started on Saturday, when they came over to the beach for a required Lazy Town visit, bringing along with them the rest of the Bay Area Oregonian contingent: Mat, Yosuke, Joel...full house. But we're always happy to play host and have some visitors, fire up the BBQ, pitch the tent in the yard, the sleeping mats inside on the floor, stock the fridge, and do what we do best -- enjoy the fun and the sun of another beautiful Santa Cruz weekend.

Of course it goes without saying, no visit to Lazy Town / (the real) Surf City USA is complete without a surf session or two, so dragged the land-lubbers out to the beach. In pursuit of uncrowded waves, we drove down the coast just a little bit, and found what we were looking for...sand, sun, and nearly empty waves. Unfortunately you can't have it all, so our waves tended to be of the closeout variety, but one thing this ragtag surf crew is certainly not lacking for is cajones...those maniacs were throwing themselves into anything and everything. If it wasn't double overhead and about to whomp on the sand, they weren't going for it...all out!!! :) That's how we roll! Nicely done. (Yes, I exaggerate slightly. But -- not that much. These guys are animals!). It was really fun way to spend the afternoon, everybody got some waves, and I'll have to admit...I fear the Bennett Bros Surf Academy may very well have graduated a few more full-fledge surf-starved kooks to crowd a future lineup near you...but come on, can you blame them?

Another nice bonus of visitors, especially visitors with high quality camera gear, is you come out with lots of photos...so I'll end this now and let the photos do the rest. Thanks to Mat and Yos (And Selin and Erica) for snapping (and sharing), and thanks to everybody for coming to visit. Come back anytime -- you know where the surfboards are.