Oh boy, Ventura
This picture is a screen print from the Surfer Mag web site.
For perspective, the number of days that look like this in any
given year? If you are lucky, it would
be the number of fingers you have on one hand. Sure it gets good, but to be
glassy and good all day... kind of rare. Note the sun is setting in this
picture. And to have the perfect swell direction at the same time as the
perfect weather, yeah kind of rare.
This really is a great picture but
don't go thinking the point in Ventura
is consistently like the picture.... that would be a fantasy. As well, when and
if you happen onto a day like this.... from the picture, I'm counting about 8 or maybe 10 wave
sets. You will get your chance with one of the set waves in a rotation of at
least 75 other surfers.
Ok, so how do I know? The arrow in
the picture points to the house I lived in. Moved into the place in 1974 and
sold the place in 2010. And lived within
a few blocks of that place the 6 years before 1974. I could ride my bike to the pier, check the
surf, ride home, put on my wet suit, put my board in my truck, drive to the
point and be in the water in very little time. Which I did all the time. It was really great too 'cause on those cold
winter days I would get out of the water and just drive home in my wetsuit, go
into the back yard, turn on my out door hot shower and get out of my suit.
The north
west corner of Ventura
County Ventura
and the last on is Rincon. What would be nice to see, along with this picture
of Ventura , is an aerial pic of
each one of the other points on this same day... you know, just for fun. And to
be fair, when coming to Ventura ,
there are 3 other points that are surf able too. If Ventura
looks good just think what the other points would be like. Yeah, they're only a
few minutes up the road.
So far I haven't talked to anybody
from Ventura that is stoked about
seeing The Point on the cover of Surfer Magazine.
D.R.
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