E's Surf Report: again stormy at ob.. voyaged south

sorry for the late report.. just discussing ways to "stop bush" in the 2004 election on our sierraclub.org website. I'm a web developer for the sierra club and our whole organization is trying to mobilize to educate the public about the environmental raping and pillaging currently going down by our "elected" officials in washington.. it's scary. Some of the more gross examples include relaxing the enforcement of clean air and clean water laws, denial that global warming exists, not signing the Kyoto agreement, refusal to encourage more fuel efficient vehicles, opening thousands of acres of our national forests and parks to logging, lifting bans on the sale of PCB-contaminated property, blocking lands from being giving wilderness designation, loosening enforcement of the endangered species act, attempting again and again to drill in the arctic national wildlife refuge, attempting to open more of the pacific coast to offshore oil exploration, inviting only "industry" participants (oil, coal, gas, auto) to help craft the energy bill (Cheney)... etc... And the scary thing is that the media has largely chosen ignore these egregious infractions of our environmental health and well-being, our quality of life. The administation just keeps ducking behind 9/11, using it as a scare-tactic to justify it's neo-conservative agenda.... more strident american hedgemony abroad, beefed up military spending, less taxes for the rich... "keep em' scared and we'll stay on top." anyway.. i actually am a bit scared at this point.. scared that the Bushies are walking us into a death-trap in more ways than one. but.. that's just my humble opinion.. also don't forget to vote today.

the surf!! OB disheveled, warbled and fugly... except for second lot sloat, which looked very approachable.. I sat and watched for a good 10 minutes and almost hit it.. but.. wimped out and sailed down to the 'mar for the third time this week. Not as large as yesterday, the north-end experiencing some rips and gargling.. middle and south end throwing up some glassy, quick, waist/shoulder-high little blips and sections. Tom, Loon, CK, Paul B and a squadron of others catching a little pre-work seshy.. The wind blew out of the SW and remained pretty favorable for most of Lindy (side/offshore).. it's surfable out there.. maybe a drive down the coast would be more fruitful??

siiiick..

salt creek (tyrez posted these)

so glassy!

shipsterns (also from tyrez via fluidzone)