Surfing Waves

Thursday, 9 FEB 2017, provided an unseasonably warm day, brilliant sunshine, and super low-tide. Our intrepid duo, Roxy Ridgeback and billie morini, decided the afternoon was too precious to waste working while chained to desk and computer. They determined the best way to spend the afternoon was to walk to a semi-secret cove that provided Goleta teenagers with many enjoyable weekends for three decades (until the mean wealthy man bought this small slice of heaven).

Roxy and billie left home about 14:30 and returned 3.5 hours later. They had a wonderful time and provide the following photos for your enjoyment. There would have been photos made in the destination cove, but shortly before arriving, billie dropped his camera (smartphone, actually) into a tide pool. No photos after this!

Some of billie's local Surfing Waves Forum buddies will recognize the locations from these photos. Please, Mum's the word on specific location. Thank you.

Here's the sublime Roxy Ridgeback among some of the Central Coast's astounding sedimentary marine geologic features. She's happy!

Looking the other direction, here's the sea at super low tide. Normally, we surf over this flat geologic units. Some of the Channel Islands can be seen in the distance. It's always a treat to visit them.

Some more sedimentary marine geologic features (e.g., "cliffs" to laymen). Just love how these once horizontal beds were stood up to nearly vertical. Not obvious in this photo is that a large portion of the Central Coast was not only uplifted, it was rotated laterally. This is why these beds, as well as the Santa Ynez Mountains that Roxy Ridgeback enjoys, are oriented East-West. Mountains oriented East-West in North America are referred to as "transverse ranges" because most ranges in North America have a North-South orientation. There are about 5 transverse ranges in North America and two or three of them are in SoCAL.

Last photo before billie dropped his smartphone in a tide pool. Roxy wasn't fazed, but both of our intrepid adventurers returned home tired from their brief adventure. Work was tough this week, so following this post, Roxy and billie will hit the hay before 21:00. Forum members in the USA and Canada are reminded to advance their clocks 1 hour this Saturday night / Sunday morning. Forum members in Mexico will not Spring Forward until 2 APRIL 2017.