We are one month into winter where I am in the northern
hemisphere. That means the ocean temperature is a bit cold in my neck of the
woods. How cold you might ask?
Well, lets just say after living in the tropics where the
water temps could be easily 80 degrees, maybe a couple ticks to a few ticks
lower in the winter months…. That’s translates to a 20 to close to a 25 degree
difference for where I’m surfing now. Depending on the time of year.
Do I need to say surfing in the warmer waters is way better?
This may have been said before but, it’s been 14 years now since I left our
Now… I’m about 7 miles from the beach. The last couple of
days there has been snow on the mountains inland and visible from here. Even
visible from the beach in town. Right now as I’m writing it’s 52 at the beach
and 7 miles inland it’s 56. At
Did I say I don’t like cold water??? Well, I don’t like cold
weather either. A few days ago, I was thinking I’d really like to get down to
the beach in the morning and surf….. maybe. I’ll beef up the wet suit and it
will be doable. When I got up and checked the temperature outside before I was
to head out it was 32 degrees. Sure, it was warmer at the beach by maybe 8, 10
degrees but, at 32 I was not interested in even going outside let alone go
surf.
I said to myself…. ‘I’m too old for this’.
Ok, I know… you’re only as old as you feel. Well, I know another
thing. If I was in the tropics looking to go surf in the morning, I wouldn’t be
feeling old at all. Even in if it was the end of January. Now maybe too old if
the surf was on the very large size. So, then you just go to another spot
that’s not taking the swell as strong and surf there.
Got to love the tropics.
D.R.
