Last Surf of the Season

The Surf does not disappoint

The last surf session of the season has just been had. Ratty and Johan had been keeping a keen eye on the situation of ocean storms. We weren't sure that we'd actually take the chance to get into the water since conditions aren't really ideal for surfing (air temp, water temp and the fact it was due to snow). As it was, Johan took a break from moving into his new apartment, Grant came home from his cabin in the mountains, and I (Jay)... well, I had nothing better to do. So we set it all up last night and this morning began our full day of surf and exploration. Above is a picture of our true Legend Ratty, doing a magazine quality carve. As usual, he was on fire and for an old man in his 50's, (RAT) "thanks for making me 10 years older for free Jay!!"), he put us yung'unz in our place. Earlier today, the waves weren't ideal. They were blown out, and scattered everywhere so we decided to go for a little Lewis and Clark-ing around the general area. What we found was amazing and almost unbelievable. We discovered 3 new surf spots to which their locations will be kept secret until the day we die, so don't even ask. Pictures of these spots will be posted at a later time. -Jay

(RAT). When we got back to our regular spot it had settled down alot but it was still pretty chunky with some of the waves even pretty clean on the face. There were some 6 footers rolling through at times and it wasn't fun being forced to duckdive them, the water is what we call, 'COLD'.

This was the prelude to the picture above

Grant, launching his trademark Rat Air

With feminine grace, Grant carves the face ever so beautifully

The Rat Roundhouse cutty Re-Entry

A more realistic view of the size of the waves

Our Legend showing how to dress

(Rat) it was -1 celcius and snowing small snow flakes like little ice raindrops and pretty hard onshore winds at times hitting Johan and I right in the eyes. It was about 2-3 degs celcius in the water. The temps didn't bother me at all 'cause our wetty's are so good you don't get cold at all but the ice needles hitting our eyeballs wasn't really that pleasant actually!!

(Jay) Better description is like a constant stream of glass shards going into your eyes. I did paddle out and the whole time was hellish. The weather had actually gotten better when I paddled out but it was still blowing horizontal eye bullets.


Bert and Ernie

Johan and Grant