Mid Week Malaise

Thurs 7/31: Waiting mode. WFL looks calm for the next week. EC will see an uptick in wave height starting Sunday but with onshores. By Tuesday it is really supposed to fill in w/ offshores also so keep an eye on the EC and thewavecaster.com. PR is expecting 35-40knt winds Saturday night as a tropical storm passes the NE side of the island, 3-7inches of rain(yeah right). This place does much better on long range ground swells, not ‘on top of you’ storm swells so we will have to wait and see. 93L has more convection today but I’m not getting my hopes up. Have a great day. It’s good to be alive.

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149 thoughts on “Mid Week Malaise”

  1. Robbed72

    Guys and girls – if you need to get wet you can find a little wave right now … it’s like knee high slop, but there’s a rideable wind swell out back … might even be bigger somewhere else … and depending on the tide, who knows? You know the drill …

  3. Evy Alland

    like clockwork – bring the longboard in for repair and badaBing –we get waves, I just knew it LOL
    heading out w/ the Fish

  4. baytopper

    Sloppy choppy thigh high, but got a few fun ones. Everyone thank EVY for taking her stick in for repair!

  8. DW

    Similar to CDE and Baytopper posts above…last eve/low tide = knee-occ.thigh choppy surf in Indian/Red. Shores area…surprising fun on my LB but not nothing SB or Fishable…still sumtin’ for ripple riders and better than normal flat summer doldrums.

  9. Evy Alland

    thanks for the report
    going to give it a look this afternoon – because just maybeeeeeeee

    1. admin Post author

      bfisch, guys what time has been best to surf? when is low tide? thinking of taking the grom out later

  13. Gulfsyed

    Welcome back Micha. Scored small waves yesterday at 10am on the incoming and it looked like last night at low tide it was working as well. there is more wind up that way high tide at CWB at 1230 3.4

  14. Bfisch

    I have been surfing from 5 until dark. The outgoing negative low tide amplifies waves at my local spot. Once the tide turns, it shuts down. The negative low is around 8-9 pm tonight.

  15. chaulky

    You get out there today fisch? Good skim wave this morning with strong micro swell still out there, that mid incoming not helping. Curious if the low tide helped this evening even tho the wind backed off a bit throughout the day. Btw Welcome home Mdub, the gulf misses you

  18. Heath

    Micah my office is buying photos for the office and I have showed them a couple I’ve had. I will need the website for them to go buy them off of. Let me know. thanks.

  19. Heath

    Florida pictures. They like the one with the tree on the beach from the one place we surfed a few years back. Is that on that page?

  21. mdub

    My World Cup take it’s been really fun to watch the United States looks European all slow and methodical but they got the result. the other teams I’m watching italy looks good Honduras looks bad Costa Rica started bad but got good

  23. chris

    Housing on my gopro failed water filled in while i was spearfishing super bummed on that cameras destroyed

  24. Evy Alland

    Just asked a Sea Captain friend of mine to whisper in Lady Gulf’s ear…. perhaps her can “stir” her up some…..seems Neptune has me on Ignore….

    Chris – Ugh&ARVVY on the leak : (( why did the housing fail??? product or operator error????

  25. Chris

    I’m gonna say operator error, I don’t think I had the clamp on all the way because after I took the gopro out and tested the housing there was no leak .

  27. Robbed72

    Back in the day, yep. Upham, around the same time frame, would often pick up summertime t-storm swell … super short lived; short period waves. Waist high plus fun little nugs peppered in with psycho lightning blasting all around us. This, of course was back in the day when there was a notion that it was impossible to die at age 13. What were my parents thinking? “Ok … go out and have fun in the lightning, we’ll be back to pick you up in 3 hours” … I really miss Upham. Later in life, as I got my roots deeper into the ground, Upham was so convenient to surf BEFORE and AFTER work. Just kept the board in the car and showered there before cruising into work at 8:30 or 9:00 am. And then they decided to ruin our break … makes me mad.

  28. Evy Alland

    bcruzer !! thx for those links —

    “they” are responsible for ruining sooo many breaks *sigh* got to keep hoping those sands will shift and make a new spot…

    memories: Hurricane Jeanne broke my nose, Hurricane Francis split my head open, (they are good memories in that I learned good lessons – I had a steep learning curve) Hurricane Wilma …stupid mother that I was, I let my kid paddle out w/his new WillieB Longboard at Lido – I think he was 12.5 ish…he made it through the breakers and was in the line-up when the HUGEST ROGUE WAVE did a smack down on the line-up…boards were flying everywhere…. totally newbie –I had never ever seen anything like that before…. and where was my kid. O hell, that was a long few minutes….eventually saw him, and then he washed up to shore…..paddled back out (in-spite of smothermother) rode one back in and said I’m done for the day. Have to say… he grew up that day. His Rite of Passage. BEST MEMORY…RIDING WAVES WITH DOLPHINS post Hurricane Dolly…. probably one of the best days in my life.

    ok enough chatter — I spy a heads up potential this weekend — still don’t have my longboard back, but I got FAT fish….so I’m good to get any little ‘ting

    1. admin Post author

      Viera on the EC, do yourself a favor and check that place out. 404 wickam rd. go west past all the developments. there is a water treatment plant that has a trail for incredible bird watching, great place for photography. if you go right at the water plant and head west the road turns to dirt all the way at the end the road ends. thats where it is, so beautiful out there

  31. Bfisch

    Just back from a week in the mountains with a tummy full of trout and feeling refreshed! This is a great time of year to hit the Appalachian Trail and find some fun waterfalls or go whitewater rafting.

  32. Evy Alland

    Zephyrus (West Wind) whispered suggestive thoughts in my ear during my entire run…he’s cranking a steady breeze -calling me to the sea
    hydrating, eating, tidying up the casa, visualizing a parking space, loading my BLUEfish
    and taking time in the salty brine — I AM GETTING WET

  33. bcruzer

    From admin:
    “We have 72hrs of onshore wind at least. At some point during those 72 hrs it’s gotta blow hard enough to make an LB line or some storms come in. I bet someone will get wet”.

    I believe it. Well, I don’t know who’s going to be the lucky someone. I bet EVY is one good candidate to get some. In times like this, for LB peeps, happy searching or you can check your local spot every now and then or you can just stay on the beach and chill. Shaka! Peace out.

  35. Charlie

    I think its time to form a drum circle and do the surf dance!

    Anyone want to go fishing this week?? email me! doernerc [at] gmail

  36. Evy Alland

    took the kayak out this morning, figure it’d take the edge off -not….and, because I’m ever hopeful, I will load the board and check out the one possibility spot later this afternoon… by late afternoon the masses of 2-leggeds that live here only because there’s AC will have vacated parking spaces and maybeee there will be a bit of some little ‘ting out there & if not, -a paddle always does a wahine good

  39. Evy Alland

    Levi !!!! *smile* glad you mentioned him!! He’s been off my radar for a while – need to give him a shout out….as for the forecast… you said Bleak and I say BLARG!!!

  40. K

    Oh man, that’s the most depressing surf forecast ever. Last time I surfed was April with no end in sight. Ugh! Time to fish and drink more beer!

  41. evy alland

    Getting whacked here…serious wave withdrawal – desperate housewives… ain’t nothing like a desperate wahine cravin some WAVE time…. I’ve tried every trick I know and nothing is budging Neptune outta his comatose..any one have a board to burn and offer up?
    http://bcove.me/x89l4zek

  46. RUSS-D

    well I couldn’t take the flat spell any longer, so I am packing up and heading out for a short CR trip the week after the 4th. And the forecast is looking kind of large for the first few days. And it could get bigger depending on what that TD does down South of there. I am actually a bit nervous as this could be the largest surf I have ever encountered. To date Kaisers at 5-7 ft., Hurricanes Katia, Florence, Bill, and Dan along with the super swell of Halloween ’92 (when I really didn’t know what I was doing then) are probably the biggest surf I have ever surfed. I am actually hoping to find some smaller more manageable surf around a corner, or in a cove :). Either way I don;t think I will find flat conditions by any means LOL.

    1. admin Post author

      congrats Russ! Check for some protected spots if it gets too big, may be a big party if CR keeps winning soccer games.

  49. Robbed72

    Be safe Russ … hey man – if it’s huge and out of control you can go to Manuel Antonio and it’ll be a lot smaller … that’s always a safe back pocket bet. Take pics and (yes) – we are all jealous.

  50. Evy Alland

    ” How strange it was to see men do something beautiful, so pointless and elegant. Men and their boards carving along hills of glass for pleasure alone. The primary thrill of surfing was incontestable. The body rush brought on by flying down the line of a wave with the wind singing in your ears.
    I didn’t know what endorphins were but quickly understood how narcotic the feeling was and how addictive it became. From day one, I was stoned from just watching. I had to get out there. Week by week, I literally found my feet, wobbling in across the shore break, smiling from ear to ear never wanting those few brief moments of living to end. Each time an echo of the initial thrill. Suspended in this moment, never having felt so good in all my life.” Brigid Lally

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