Saturday Surf Session

Original photo by Clayton Plummer

This past Saturday I went down to Cardiff with my SUP.  Cardiff is quickly becoming a favorite spot for me when my girlfriend and I are down at her parents’ place.

I was up early (for a Saturday) and made my way to the surf by 8:50-ish.  This worked out great since low tide was at 8:30 or so this past Saturday. Cardiff is cool because there is a rock-reef for the wave to form against.  There’s one spot in particular that is close to the surface, especially at low tide.  It makes this really cool and weird water boil every time a wave passes over it. In general, the reef makes the wave ultra predictable.  It breaks in a very specific spot every time.  So, that makes it easy to paddle out, line up, and catch waves.

I surfed for about an hour and a half.  It felt like much longer because my wave count was high.  There was a pretty good crowd, and quite a few SUP’pers out there.  Thankfully, there were plenty of waves for everybody.

It was a good day of surf, waves were fun, crowd was mellow, and the marine layer burned off early so the sun was shining. One of these days, I’m going to bring some fishing gear and check out the reef out past the breakers.  I think there are some fun fish to be hand out there.