Surfing Waves

Way up north, there is a regional classic sand bar break with lefts and rights. Waves are fast and powerful. This beach is about 80 miles south of the Oregon border. In this region, Humboldt County, California, you examine waves at many breaks to verify the waves are small enough to surf! Water is always cold. Rarely more than 10C (50F). Local surfers are very strong and warm blooded.

Recent headlines read:
Four teenage surfers save two brothers, aged 15 and 20, from drowning after the pair were swept away by a freezing rip current at California beach
- Four teenage surfers saved two brothers from drowning after they were swept away in a rip current
- The heroic save happened at Trinidad State Beach in Humboldt County, California on Veterans Day
- The teenagers helped the brothers back to shore after they noticed the pair struggling in the deep, cold water
- Neither the brothers nor the surfers were injured in the incident

Here's the surfing heroes!

News and photo sourced from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... rrent.html

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billie_morini wrote:Local surfers are very strong and warm blooded.

Can confirm. Sue and I lived in McKinleyville when we were first married and this was the standard wetsuit. When it's cold everyday you get used to it. Now I need a 5/4 with booties!

sistas and bruddahs: BoMan reports Mrs. BoMan and he lived in McKinleyville when first married. This town is just a stone's throw south from Trinidad Beach. So, he confirms the sea is cold up there. The wave energy and current strength should be experienced. I suspect those of you in that have surfed near Tasmania will appreciate this. One final note, the photo posted by BoMan shows three of the Young Heroes!