Apocalypse Now?

Lots of people are bummed on the crowds during the Alex swell. Maybe Florida is overpopulated, maybe the internet has killed surfing. The latter I really don't think is true. I think back to an "A" storm in 1992, the infamous Andrew, way before the internet. After he wracked Homestead he cruised right into the gulf and headed for LA. We got good swell, it came up over night . I was surfing a spot on the side of the road but the tide got too high and it was crashing onshore. I headed to the same spot pictured in the photo above and it was so crowded. Many pros from the EC had come over. Cory and Shea were out and it was just nuts. The surf was head high, thick barrels and I got slammed a few times. Not used to surfing waves like that. I finally ended up drifting way up the beach and surfing perfect chest high lefts by myself by a certain single family home with a blue A frame roof nestled between the Australian pines. Point is the crowds were thick back then also. It's a high profile named storm. Everyone is so surf starved. It's been a bad year or two for surf in WFL. I believe in the decadel cycle and this time 10yrs ago we were also going through an extreme wave drought. I think I wrote back then; "there will never be surf again in WFL" That's how bad it was. I tried to quit surfing or take up sailing but nothing worked. Surfing is in my blood. Fortunately we started getting waves again. One big difference in 1992 was that beach had multiple peaks and you did not have to surf in a crowd. This swell was weak and none of the other peaks were working so I think that was the cause for the congestion. Props to you if you scored waves by yourself. I surfed Thursday for 5 hours with my kids. I had a lot more fun on Thursday with my kids then I did on Friday. Anyways the real cure to our crowd problems would be a string of surf days with solid waves. And keep your personal secret spot in your back pocket so you don't have to deal with crowds like the one above.