Theyyyyyyyyyyyyyy're Baaaaaaaaaaaaack

The waves that is! The waves are back on the north shore. Yesterday (Thursday) initially didn't look that good, but the wind kicked in later in the afternoon. Got to Kanaha to see waves at Lowers, the return of the Wierd Wave, and bigger waves at Uppers. Went out on 5.0 and CultWave. Wind was pretty puffy and holey. Waves at Uppers were head-high to mast-high and bigger. Riding out side the break at Uppers, I saw a couple of waves where the backside was mast high. I don't quite have big enough balls yet to venture into them when they're that big. Wind slacked off as the session went on, but it was definitely a much more intersting session with a genuine north swell event. No laid-back, auto-pilot sailing that's for sure.

Today pretty much sucked. Lots of clouds, up and down wind. I dashed down to Kanaha when the pager showed 21, but I arrived to see barely white-capping conditions, lots of slogging and walks-of-shame going on and dark rain clouds off-shore and upwind. Didn't even bother to rig.