The stars aligned this morning to create a surfer's paradise at Playa Guiones - persistent offshore winds, high tide, warm, clear water, blue skies, and plenty of chest-to-head-high swell rolling through.
The result - tons of smooth, moderately-powerful, mellow, super peely waves. Sometimes the waves were so easy to catch it was like getting on a ski-lift. I had by far my longest rides to date.
The kicker is, after 9:30 AM there was hardly anybody in the water. By mid-morning on most days, the winds shift onshore, the waves start to get choppy, the surfing gets lousy, and the sun gets hot. Because of this, most of the surfers here habitually do early morning sessions and clear out by 10 AM. So when the conditions miraculously stay perfect, like they did today, anybody who sticks around has the waves all to himself. No hustling for position in the lineup, no deferring to better surfers, no drop-ins.
On a side note, I was sitting on my board, scanning the horizon for waves, when a sea turtle poked his head out of the water about 10 feet away from me. He must have decided he was at the wrong beach, because he didn't stick around to surf with us.
It was a good day.
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