It’s been a good week to live in Northern California. We have seen offshore winds nearly all day, every day, proper swells rolling through, even the tides are cooperating to an extent.
Photo: SF Surf Shots.
Tuesday and Wednesday of last week were big, too big for most of us mere mortals. But by Saturday, things had calmed down a bit, and with howling offshores and fairly ideal tide windows, the waves were damn near perfect. “Middle of the beach has been going off,” Ross of SF Surf Shots told me over Instagram on Saturday, and his pictures, above and below, definitely prove his point.
Photo: SF Surf Shots.
The NorCal Surfer also made it out to The Beach to shoot on Saturday (video above) just off of Lawton Street, close to the middle of the beach. “Ocean Beach offered occasional double-overhead waves with perfect offshore wind,” he wrote. “Surfers were getting tubed all up and down the beach!”
Photo: SF Surf Shots.
As for myself, after a week of paddling out every day with my heart in my throat as I did my best to time surfs in between work and low tides, on Saturday I went north to my favorite longboard break for some lower-stakes waves. The surf was pretty good, producing a couple of minute-long rides, but nothing close to the spectacular beauty seen here through the lenses of SF Surf Shots and the NorCal Surfer. Well, you can’t win ’em all (at least that’s what I’m telling myself). And with plenty more offshore winds in the forecast and swell on the horizon, hopefully I’ll get a day with these perfect conditions sometime soon.
