Surf Journal: 10/18/09

-0.5 tide at Opal Cliffs.

Too bad, no surf today.

I slept in - which is what I think anyone should do at least one day of the weekend. Of course, I don't have kids... nor would I want them to sleep in 'til noon! I wouldn't want them to be a burn out like me.

I did all my chores though. Laundry, especially.

So at about 4pm I went over on a hunch that Manresa/Beer Can would be OK. That I would catch the tide turning from low to high. Too windy though. I drove to the Hook and the tide was too low. That's OK, because that's how I jacked the board last Friday.

I checked it out though, and went in the way-back machine; like I used to do when I worked at Cabrillo. Where I would consult the tidebook, not to check the surf, but for the low-tide when I could walk along the base of the Depot Hill cliffs.

I remember this was a great way to blow out teaching a community college physical geography lab class for the previous three hours.

I would even try to use this as an example. So I'd go there after class and take more pictures to show to the students at the next class. We spent three weeks on the subject, I made 'em walk down there and back. Ascending the terraces, learning about slope.

One student said she liked my pictures. Several others were not so impressed.

In that spirit: Me (with Monday's off, from 2001 until the new city hall opened in 2005) is revisited in the following photos.

The only difference is this time I walked along the base of Opal Cliffs (the first picture), and then I went and checked out how the sea-wall construction at Pleasure Point fared during last weeks storm.