I've made it to Cabo San Lucas, and am dropping off Lindsey today at the airport. We had a great time together exploring the peninsula.
We started off near Punta San Carlos, where there is a lot of dust, and there were some determined cows that were tromping through the dust to get somewhere. The sun was rising and the dust looked really neat.
We also went to Punta Baja, where we found some small waves and a full moon, with an Osprey perched along a clifftop watching the water.
Then we went to what we have been calling the "Dolphin Coast", which is a really cool area that seems to be little traveled. We discovered a huge group of Sooty Shearwaters and while we were surfing at what we named "shearwater express", they came bombing along just over the waves and all around us, over us, and zipping right next to our heads, possibly as close as 5 feet away, gliding along the surface and the crests of the waves. It was very exciting to be sitting in the middle of a freeway of birds, in the oncoming lane, watching traffic zip by. I don't know how many there were, but about 50 at any moment were going by, and it lasted for 30-45 minutes, so lets say 50/second is 3000 a minute, and for 30 minutes is about 90,000 birds.
Later on we found a bunch of fishes and surfed with them. The small fish are everywhere, and darken the water, but are scared of big things, so they leave a clear patch of water next to a swimmer or surfer. When you catch a wave, the fish are caught up in it too, and they flip and flop and wiggle against your legs which feels quite strange. In the evening dolphins came in and started chasing the fish, so the birds also descended and it was a mad feeding frenzy. I tried to paddle out into it but the frenzy moved too fast.
From the dolphin coast we headed on down and found some nice places to surf. Lindsey is getting a nice little grab rail stance and it works really well for steeper sections.
There were some fun ones for her, but it was pretty little overall.
Here's one of the bigger ones. I notice she holds here forward hand down, which I do as well, and I've been told its a bad habit. I guess I've passed that habit on. (apparently you should point to where you want to go)
Finally we made it to Southern Baja and in the East Cape area we played around a bit. The waves were much bigger here and the beaches steeper, so there is this awesome reverb that happens when the wave bounces back and hits the oncoming wave and it slaps together. Lindsey took this shot.
While she was taking the waves shots, she also got some of me surfing this little reef break that is a bit of a nail biter. It was nice and big but hard to make sometimes.
Here's a bigger one. I'm very proud of getting the fin out of the water, you can see the dark thing under the back of the board.
The wave ends in a shorebreak close-out, so you have to go go go and then pop over the top.
Sometimes it is kind of hollow.
The trip was really great, but we've decided that living out of the truck for two months is a little bit too long. Next time we will probably be quicker and then go to a spot and stay in a house.
I've got a few more days until I fly to Barcelona to look at a Pogo 40 there, so just in time to get some more surf in.
