Ohhhh the good 'ol days of Ventura... does it get any glassier than this?! I miss the views, the smells, the sets...

Off for mountain bike ride threw GG Park.............

Heading for the Enchanted Isle...

Hey ~ We've got a bit of SW in the water today, but, it not hitting all the spots up here in South SB... Illegals and Rincon are near flat with Mondo's feelin the swell a bit more and also C Street looked good as I drove by with my quick glimpse of Drain Pipes on my way to work. Hopefully, I get some itty bitty lines at our lunch sesh today.

Pictured: Spiralina with glassed-in Bamboo's by Mandala ~ SWEET!

Well, it's that time of the month to head for Puerto Rico for hopefully a bit of warm water swell. I checked the local reports and there might be a bit of SE Swell over the weekend, I'm hopeful. I'll try to bring back some pix for ya'll to check out. The big swell window for me (hopefully) will be over the Thanksgiving week, when I'll be wave hunting that entire week.

That's it for now!

tone~ out

Home sweet home...

Out last week in the Denver area; Colorado is wide open and most of the mountain is open as of Halloween. Got back Friday afternoon and hit County Line an hour or so before dark and caught some knee-waist shoulders; had to get wet. The following morning I headed down to the Strand for some really, realy fun surf, a bit crowded and foggy, but if and when you caught one of those hollow, super fun lefts you were way STOKED! I was riding my 5'9" Zippifish all weekend long and it was a blast! Sunday was reportedly the smaller of the weekend days, so, instead of hitting the Strand again (which must've been ridiculuosly crowded!), I opted for Hueneme and it was super fun, glassy shoulder high sets with a fraction of the crowd that the Strand had. I actually talked with some guys out and they said the it was super high tide and crowded and Hueneme was the better call. All in all, I had my fill of surf and fun on my fish... it just doesn't get any better as far as home sweet home. The picture posted is a pic of my ride down to the Strand on Saturday AM @ 7 ish.

Late tone~

Highway Robbery!

tone~ providing today's update at Rincon and Illegals... This morning was flooded, but you could still see signs of lineage in the horizon as the waves smashed along the rocks. Tide dropped to a reasonable level by the lunchtime sesh and was producing some solid head high sets from Rincon to Illegals. Rincon was firing with a pretty good pack in water and growing by the carload. I'm positive that tomorrow will be packed all day long and I hope the Sweepers don't bother... We paddled Illegals and found some solid surf, a bit walled and plenty of crash tubes to be had. It was really warm and sunny out there, but there was something different-strange about the water today, there was a ton of floaters, mostly debris, driftwood and ash scum, we figured it was from the extreme high tide this morning that dragged all that crap out into the water. Good day overall, until I got back to my car... As my buddy and I surfed I noticed a faded blue, boxy type Jeep Cherokee pull over to check the surf and I thought nothing of it. But, when I got back to my car these kooks had picked off my water bottles from the side of my car. I place my orange tide bottle full of warm water on the side of the freeway to help keep cellphone talkers from drifting into the bike lane and then in the parked car zone. Long story longer, these kooks had snagged both of my water bottles... KOOKS! I know the car and it's a small world... it's not about the bottles, it's about surfers rippin off surfers... beware punkasses, I'm looking for you thiefs and it's not about the bottles, its about what you're about. tone~ out

New diamond tail quad in Holloween orange...

My wife and son did me huge a favor over the past weekend and picked up our new boards from a friend of mine's shop in Puerto Rico "La Ocho Surf"; sick shop that you can sometimes catch a good used Pavel off the rack or a Trinx Hawaiian Pig. The day before and the morning of the pick up, I had been hounding them hard. I hounded them to send tons of pix from every angle they could possibly come up with and send all the shots. One of the shots was this tail shot that I thought turned out pretty sweet! The shot was a bit fuzzy, but it was the best shot of my first, custom diamondtail. As the pix came through my phone, one by one, I got cell phone color tweak and the board started looking bright periwinkle/pink grapefruit. I started to freak at that point, thinking I just got my first custom HIC quad - diamondtail and it's bright pink!

Of course when I texted my family asking for a confirmation that the board is not pink and it's just my cheap-ass phone... they said "yup, it's pink alright"... my wife and son were howling with laughter after each text message I sent yelling "NOOOOOO!" I don't have anything against pink, but, pink boards were hip in the early eighties, but now? I then sent the pix to my computer and pulled them up and finally saw that my new board was Pumpkin Orange, a lot easier on the eyes than pink... Anyway, here's a shot of the latest tail to join my quiver. Sidenote~ my son picked up his new board and it was day-glow Christmas tree colored quad with black ornaments (Stars). The caption of that pic with both boards read... Merry Holloween Dad! Sweet!

tone~ out.

Blasting offshores!

Now that's what I call pelting offshore winds! I got out over the weekend and specifically on Sunday I stopped at Hueneme Pier and it was an offshore sand storm, but, what a sight! It made for some incredible photos. Peaky and blowin large flumes of spray of perfect A-Frames with not a soul around. The left corner photo is of Hueneme, just north of the plant. I ended up just north of this spot and it also was firing! I've added additional pics for your viewing pleasure... Lunchtime up in SB wasn't clean enough to paddle; smaller, wobbly-tripled up peaks. Didn't look good enough to get wet and the stench of smoke even made it worse. Hopefully manana will be better. tone~ out.

Stop with the emailed Surf Reports already!

It's getting better out there in terms of clean, peaky glasslove. Illegals had some fun rights and lefts and pretty glassy this afternoon. Rincon was looking pretty tempting, but, again on a time budget, Rincon can be a the difference between 2 to 5 waves during a lunchtime sesh. Waves were waist/shoulder at the sets and super fun. Grabbed as many as we could and headed back to the office.

More and more emails pour into my ebox letting us all know that Sunday will be (a super crowded) epic day and continue to triangulate the sources for us. They say WNW + SW + offshore wind event will equate to some epic head high or bigger waves for Sunday, again, watch out for the urban masses out there and play nice.... What I really look forward to is MONDAY! Most everyone will be of the mindset of "the swell shrinking or gone and besides, I have to work", I think that Monday's sesh is going to be super clean, dead calm, glassy and head high - SWEET!

My weekend recommendation would be to search airfares to Mazatlan and get down to Cardon Surf Resort (Northern Mainland Mex) to see what this late season SW will do down there and besides, I heard they have a tropical storm/hurricane hitting Mainland Mexico about now - there's the triangulation that's actually pretty scary. My buds and I were down there last year in October for some really fun left point break action. tone~ out.