Photographs by Chris
Smith: The Early Morning 4th of July Session.
Brian
Stringer
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The
Chris Smith Firecracker Day Report:
Brian Stringer and I left
at a ridiculous hour to catch low tide and also beat out the wind.
We arrived at Gordons Pond and gave Doug Rhodes a call to let him know
they are opening the gate early now and he said he was already on the way.
One other person, a DE local named Chris that Doug knew, was already in
the water when we arrived in the waist to chest high super clean waves.
He was getting some really nice rides off the groin on his 8' Channin.
We all got some nice rides before the crowds started showing up, in more
ways than one (jellyfish were thick with the incoming tide) at about 7:30.
Doug and Brian wisely chose
to just move up the beach a bit and were still scoring some nice waves
as I fought for mine. Eventually, after a nice race down the line
I decided to join them and we all were picking up some nice rides, despite
getting stung quite often by the jellyfish.
Paul also showed up with
the crowd and joined up with Doug and Brian for some nice waves before
he had to pack it in due to jellyfish stings. Shortly after Paul
left the crowd started to thin and so did the jellyfish.
With the full tide the waves
became much dumpier and Brian and I decided to bag it after a 5.5 hour
session. Tired but with big smiles on our faces we began our trek
home, which included a trip down to OC (bad idea). Made it back home
14 hours after I left this morning and took a nap before unloading the
car.
Russ, hopefully you got in
the water somewhere.
Hopefully everyone had a
good 4th of July.
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