I only brought one lens with me this morning since I had intended to shoot from the water. I ultimately decided not to shoot from the water though since the conditions weren't the best for water shots. Even though the lens that I had brought wasn't anything near a telephoto, I decided to mess around with it on the pier.
Chilling on the pier with my Locals rubbah slippahs. When a baby is born in Hawaii, they're issued a birth certificate and a pair of rubbah slippahs. Haha
Sal breaking through the white wash
The wind was on it from the get go.
I was hoping to catch the tail end of the south swell that we just got. I tried to choose my spot carefully so that I could take advantage of whatever swell was left. While the spot I chose still showed some swell, it was also cloudy/marine layer-ish with a healthy dose of side shore winds. Definitely not what I was hoping for in terms of conditions, but hopefully this is just the first of many good southern swells of the summer.
There really wasn't a lot out there this morning besides clouds and some reforms.
Nah, not these guys:
These guys:
Met up with three of my amigos this morning. It was pretty much just the three of them out in a certain part of line-up for most of the morning. I couldn't help but wish it was always like that - sharing uncrowded waves with just your buddies.
Evidently, I wasn't sure where I wanted to be in the line-up this morning. I'd see a nug in the distance, get excited, and then move over to where it peeled. Then I'd see a nug elsewhere and move over there. I'm sure I missed a bunch of photo ops, but I guess I got some exercise.
Sal slotted in the distance
to something else. Yesterday, I was looking forward to this morning, thinking that it would be pretty good. There were some swell and semi-favorable winds, but besides that, there really wasn't a lot of goodness out there.
I just had to take advantage of this beautiful weather by taking a beach cruise this afternoon. I stopped by at one spot and noticed that the waves were bigger than I thought they'd be. With the swell evidently still filling in, I'm definitely looking forward to tomorrow.
By the way, DK Wars is going down at Creek tomorrow from 7:30 to 3:30.
A little emerald peeler
