CentennialOur little secret. I woke up to the sound of the alarm at 6:15 and was secretly hoping it was going to be too old and/or not enough wind. Temp 7 degrees - crap! Wind speed gusting to 30 - crap! At Centennial by 7:37 am. I knew something was up when I could barely push the van door open (parked nose into the wind in the second row at Centennial). Checked the graph and it was gusting 40 mph. Funny
OSR by Tsawwassen, Local said, "walking is pretty tough one way and really easy the other!" My smallest gear was getting pressed to the beach as I tried to carry it to the water. On the water just after Mike, Gebb, and Tsawwassen. 3.4/74 felt comfy at first them the funk started - tombstoned in lulls and spooled up in gusts - Tsawwassen later said, "That was a lot of work!" Flat and choppy for a long way out at first then waves seemed to grow and organize on the flooding tide - sort of. There were some rides and some ramps but you had to hunt for both today. Broke down and dawned gloves mid-session. Played follow-the-leader with Johnny on one sequence of backside rides on the way out and thought it ended with Johnny's rig may have separated from his board out past the second bank, but it had just "disappeared" below the murky water thankfully. Saw Alton tip-toeing down the beach toward the breakwall and houses below 4th with the kite at 12 o'clock. Thankfully Mike lend a hand. Forecast was pretty much spot on and wind went south just before noon.
Next stop sushi then White Rock East Beach for the look-see.
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White Rock East BeachTweaker. I think I have a problem - solo session out tweaking my body further on the long way home. Fun little cool-down session in side-on fun knee-high pushy waves. Slight side-on WSW favoured starboard jumps and there was the odd set that felt almost coastal.
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