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Surf Report: SKUNKED

Water: Didn’t go in

Winds: Strong South wind

Atmosphere: Sunny yet kloudy?

There’s south swell in the water.  The hills of Los Angeles are burning.  And I have all day to score some surf.  Khang has a day off, so I tell him, “Let’s do Trestles!” He obliges. 

However, he is not feeling well when I pick him up.  He has had a sore throat since Friday night and is not feeling himself at all.  With this, we decide to say screw you Trestles, and head to Huntington.  We call Hideki to see if he’s in the water.  Hideki calls us back as we are passing Westminster that the surf sucked and that it wasn’t worth going at all.  The winds are too strong, the current is ripping, and the high tide washed out everything.  Ok, to Trestles we go! 

We get to Trestles after an hour and a half of driving.  When we pull up, we see that there are no surfers at Old Man’s.  The wind is howling from the South, and there are just NO WAVES.  We couldn’t believe it… we got completely SKUNKED.

I had to laugh.  We’ve scored Trestles the last few times we came here.  Heck, Khang scored it on Thursday.  But oh how the winds have changed.  We got completely and utterly skunked.  The water looked clear and beautiful.  The waves were being knocked down by the wind when they did come in.  There were four surfers out there, all beginners, and they drifted about 30 yards in 30 minutes. 

After 40 minutes of watching the Ocean and playing my ukulele, we decided to go grab some Pho at Pho Vie.  We laughed saying how we got skunked as we ate our warm, life-giving Pho.  We went next door to Lee’s Sandwiches to grab some baguette sandwiches, and then to the supermarket next door so Khang could grab some fish for his mom.  They scaled, gut, and deep-fried these two Jumbo Tilapia for $9.00.  What a fucking deal!!  I got to get me some of that next time. 

Mahalos Mother Ocean!  It’s not about the destination, but the journey. 

But man, we got skunked so hard. hahah