Monthly Archives: December 2020

December 25, 2020 Merry Christmas

Last night, I had a feeling that sunrise was going to be good so I charged up my batteries and had my camera ready to go. I set my alarm for 6:45am but I knew it was going to be very hard not to hit the snooze button especially on a cold winter day. When I peeked out my window before dawn, it looked completed overcast and I couldn’t see a slit on the horizon (usually indicates an epic sunrise), so as expected, I fell back asleep. About 10 minutes after seven, I woke up again to a glaring orange glow out my window. The sunrise colors looked very concentrated toward the east. As I sluggishly pulled myself out of bed, I looked out my living room window and saw a double rainbow intensifying. I knew it! What a way to start the day; I can’t think of a better present to wake up to. 

Merry Christmas. 

December 4, 2020

Good to Epic. December 2020

Bottom Turn. December 2020

Today would have been one of those days where you’ll call in sick because you woke feeling symptoms of epic wave syndrome thus preventing any kind of work to get done. I can’t remember the last time I saw “Good to Epic” on the Surfline report; I checked and it was back in 2013! Also a first, “Epic” on the forecast. I’ve never seen such a crowd at Noriega. There must have been at least three dozen photographers, for good reason. I wasn’t expecting it to be this good considering yesterday started off with some morning sickness. Even when the swell and wind lines up, the tide rarely would cooperate. The tide didn’t seem to be an issue this morning though. I looked out my living room window at dawn and saw clean, offshore, peeling a-frames and some of the longest left barrels I’ve ever seen. Being able to work from home allowed me to squeeze in a good bit photos before the first conference call. By mid-day I would have expected it to decrease in quality, but it kept on pumping, and pumping, through sunset and into the night. 

A classic winter day at Ocean Beach, in all its glory.