Rincon… and beyond.

Posted on November 26, 2008
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Everything set up for this one. Hotel a mile from the break, right on the water with another pointbreak right in front: Little Rincon / Mussel Shoals. very excited for this one as the plan came together… prediction was for chest to head high swell and offshores. drive drive drive down to Carpenteria after work on Monday. pull in late…2:30 AM late. what the? some freak monsoon type of thing happening. patio furniture in the pool. palm fronds broken and all over. spooky winds blasting the point.

few hours sleep, then early morning wakeup. uh oh. tide is way full and it looks smaaall out front. windstorm over at least, but little rincon is not even breaking. lookin kinda weird ’round these parts. Mini oil wells, on the side of the freeway, oil rigs offshore, this weird oil-line pier thing at the break that leads to an artificial island covered with palm trees. Surfline says there has been a 600 gallon sewage spill just down the coast today. wha? gotta check anyway. Rincon is… junk. Still a bunch of guys out. looks gutless, pouring rain, stinky with runoff, warbly, nasty. not for me. wasn’t in the cards this time around, I guess.

wait around for a while for tide to drain and that didn’t help things, in the meantime, fun to wander the point and check out the sea anemones at low tide at this famous break. oops, even worse, wind is on it. pack up the truck and head south. late by the time we see it, but Yerba Buena looked decent, but smallish. Malibu: tiny and packed. nice drive though.

On to L.A.