Surfing the Oregon Coast

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Saturday-

These past two weekends I have made the five hour drive to the Oregon Coast. The weather has been fantastic: sunny and 65 degrees! Swells have been rolling in at a pretty stout ten feet with 13 second periods. Perfect. I convinced a good friend from Corvallis to come surf....in addition to the three passengers I had with me. With the car completely packed with kiteboarding and kayaking gear we headed out....

As soon as we arrived at the jetty we could see that the swells were pretty sweet. A solid eight feet. I agreed to take pictures with josh's camera for a few minutes . After ten minutes or so I couldnt take it anymore...I HAD to get in. FYI the most difficult part of surfing in the jetty is getting in and out of the boat. All the boulders are covered with sharp barnacles. Let me be the first to say that you definitely need to wear shoes....I had a bad experience....more on that later....
(above) the surfmobile! It was loaded down this trip

(Above) checkin' out the sets in the jetty...

The funny thing about ocean surfing is the beatdown to reward ratio. It's about equal in the jetty- for every great ride, ya also get a solid beatdown. Ah now is a good time to bring up our good buddies up in the coast guard tower. There just happens to be a coast guard base right next to the jetty so there are helicopters constantly flying overhead- pretty cool. Anyways, the guys up in the tower found us all very amusing.....after one solid beatdown, I looked over to see them throwing their arms in the air and jumping around. Must have been great entertainment for them...speaking of entertainment....

(Above) Party wave!

(Above) Christina blunting left

I brought my doggy Pepper to the coast with me. This was her first time to run around on the beach and she thought it was pretty friggin awesome. It went like this: chase the seagulls, get wet and freak out, decide that was alright and chase the birds again, see a seal, cant quite get to it, confused, hey look more birds! Yeah she was a happy camper and by the way, she just celebrated her 13th bday. :)

So what happened on SAturday? LOTS of surfing, lots of tricks and of course LOTS of beatdowns. Chris learned how to blunt and josh figured out the whole timing issue.....start paddling for the wave early! We all got pretty pooped out after a few hours and each of us headed in. Now for the tough part- getting out. I didn't do super well on that and managed to get thrown up into the barnacle covered rocks....ouch. Barnacle, OW! Rocks, OW! I haven't repeated the incident since!


Sunday:
Everyone had a great time- even Holly and Collin (my kiteboarding buddies) managed to get in a five mile pull- they paralleled the beach and headed south five miles. the winds were hitting about 20-25 knots and the waves were huge outside the jetty...maybe 14 feet? hmmm they looked pretty big.

(Above) Chris throwin a blunt

(Above) Christina bouncing around

Following another good four hours of surfing, we headed back to Bend for more work work work...ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Hopefully next weekend I can get back to the coast with my buddies. The forcast is for 18 foot waves with 14 second periods. Yes! till next time everyone!

Happy Paddling as always,
Christina :)



P.S. My Delux drystop from Peak UK kept me dry the whole time...even after a fair share of beatdowns! :) Can't say enough about it!