Tag: santa cruzPage 4 of 10

Steep and Fast for the New Year (Capitola 010113)

First surf of the year turned out to be awesome! We slept in, missing the morning low tide but figured things would pick up again as it dropped…

Capitola New Year’s Eve

Surfed this morning and then stopped by Capitola this afternoon. The dropping tide had cleaned up the swell a bit with more consistency and still some size. Long…

Last Sesh of 2012 (Capitola 123112)

Felt great to get out this morning. It’s been cold (40-50) the past two weeks with winter storms and rain every couple of days over Christmas, making the…

WNW-NW Swell

WNW-NW swell eases slightly but still 5-8′ at the point. 38th had more size than usual. The sun finally came out and it looks like the past couple…

WNW Swell

Nice size 6-9′ WNW swell at Capitola.

Low Tide Capitola

Good-sized NW-WNW (Capitola 121912)

Today was spectacular: more size and power than the past sessions with consistent sets coming in and perfect wave after wave. After several low tide/dropping sessions where you…

Capitola

Saw Ryan catch a nice small right at 1st jetty.

Pleasure Point

After the King Tide (Capitola 121412)

The king tide meant high was over 6.4′ so we waited for it to drop to 2′ this afternoon. Watched some heats for the final day of Pipe…

Low King Tide

King tide the past few days meant super high and dropping to super low. This was the lowest I’ve seen it in the last five months.

Between Storms

Peeling (Capitola 121112)

Wow, today was amazing. Nonstop, perfectly peeling waves coming in regularly on a dropping tide. Lost track of how many waves we rode. With the SSW, you could…

Shortboards at Sunset (Capitola 121012)

It was pretty flat earlier when we had coffee by the beach as it neared low tide, so we decided to come back in the late afternoon thinking…

38th Ave

Mini Swell (Capitola 120912)

Another small but fun surf at Capitola for Max’s birthday! Low tide and mini SW swell but sometimes all you need is to ride some perfectly peeling 1′…