Our annual camp out a Leo Carrillo has come and gone
already.
It was this past week.
The weather was some what typical SoCal June but, we still had all but
one day with sunny afternoons.
There was a very small south swell Monday that didn’t quite
hold into Tuesday. The bigger swell was forecast to have some for runners Wednesday.
Unfortunately the for runners were few and far between with the swell
really starting to show Thursday building throughout the day.
My son got some of the building swell Thursday morning. And that was it. I on the other hand didn’t get more than an
eye full of what was one of the biggest swells I’ve seen hit Leo. I started feeling poorly Wednesday and didn’t
start recuperating until Saturday… so I missed it…. The surfing part anyway.
But I was there and I saw it. My grand son and I walked down from our camp
site to watch the action Thursday late afternoon… early evening, when the tide
was about at it’s optimum for the place.
Macking waves with some 5 and 6
wave sets, some would closeout the reef
completely. Yeah, macking waves and
macking crowd. The regular guys that
surf there were doing pretty good but taking off quite north of the rock and
blasting past it with guys all through the flight line looked pretty hectic.
To bad I didn’t take the camera with me. Sitting on the
beach snapping pics would have been fun.
Especially if I’d gotten the first wave of the clean up set that pretty
much raked the whole crowd. Guys were sitting outside waiting for the sets but
still took that one on the head, kelp and all. Crazy.
D.R.
My son Robin down the line on one of Wednesdays for runners.
