======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: You know it's a big swell . . . From: "Bonzer" Date: 3 Mar 1997 21:20:43 GMT You know it's a big swell when: Oakland goes off. My house is gone. Half the people in California are in the water, the other half are saving them. They show a picture of the OB pier on the news. Today's surfline report is a recording from yesterday. No work gets done at UCSD. No work gets done at Von's. No work gets done at Chart House. You keep hearing the term "El Nino" They show a picture of the OB pier on the news. The Tamarack parking lot is closed. Surfers outnumber nudies at Black's. You can't sleep. You can't eat. You can't work. You feel like pooping. They show a picture of the OB pier on the news. You know it's a big swell when: (go for it alt.surfing) Bonzer ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: dfrick@lava.net (Doug Frick) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 12:12:24 -1000 In article <01bc2819$1bcacbe0$4f42a7cf@dew.znet.com>, "Bonzer" wrote: >You know it's a big swell when: (go for it alt.surfing) "A high surf advisory is in effect for the north and west shores of all islands. There is a marine caution advisory for north and west-facing harbor entrances. A marine warning is in effect due to increasing swell in the channels." The evening Buoy #1 reading is 22ft/20s with no wind. You wake up at 2am with the surf booming; forget going back to sleep. Dawn patrol, with a very soft pink just beginning above the valley walls, shows waves running up the beach and over the road at Cornets. Makaha beach is washed clean, not a footprint in sight, and the stink-pond is full of salt water. It's too dark to see the outside yet; just big whitewater rollers cruising in, running up onto the beach. The sharp sound of rolling thunder from the Point, an occasional explosion as a wave connects with the shoreline reef nearby. A dozen friends sipping coffee and quietly discussing buoys and surf; listening, waiting. Nothing but guns in the racks. The air is full of salt mist, a warm breath on your face. Aloha Makaha. -- Doug Frick dfrick@pfr.com dfrick@lava.net ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: gadgetpjt@aol.com Date: 4 Mar 1997 08:50:34 GMT "Bonzer" wrote: >You know it's a big swell when: -ever you're stuck inland, without a ride to the beach. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gadget [Bude, Cornwall, UK] email: gadgetpjt@aol.com VLADIMIR: That passed the time. ESTRAGON: It would have passed in any case. VLADIMIR: Yes, but not so rapidly. -- Samuel Beckett [Waiting for Godot] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: szborges@dale.ucdavis.edu (Will Borgeson) Date: 4 Mar 1997 12:35:02 GMT : >You know it's a big swell when: You hear and feel THUNDER outside your coastal home or office, and there isn't a cloud in the sky. This often causes an adrenalin rush, butterflies in the stomach...! ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: ric@discoveryinternational.com (Ric Harwood) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 02:47:05 GMT In alt.surfing, on 4 Mar 1997 08:50:34 GMT gadgetpjt@aol.com, wrote: > "Bonzer" wrote: > >>You know it's a big swell when: > >-ever you're stuck inland, without a ride to the beach. Hey that's my line! {:^( Ric. -- European Surf forecast links and alt.surfing FAQ: http://www.discoveryinternational.com/ric/surf.htm PGP public Key ID: 0766ABE5 ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: surf4life@compuserve.com Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:11:10 -0600 In alt.surfing, on 4 Mar 1997 08:50:34 GMT gadgetpjt@aol.com, wrote: > "Bonzer" wrote: > >You know it's a big swell when: ...you experience the primal "fight or flight" responses including the need to "lighten your load" ...the constant roar you hear at night is interupted only by the sound of explosions in distance that make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end ...on your approach to the beach you see white water way earlier than 'normal' ...you've got your 7'6" and are wayyyyy undergunned ...you have an unexplained urge to hug your mommy -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Robert Ireland Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 12:26:38 -0800 gadgetpjt@aol.com wrote: > > "Bonzer" wrote: > > >You know it's a big swell when: > > -ever you're stuck inland, without a ride to the beach. > Amen to that! ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Foondoggy Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 19:38:36 -0500 Bonzer wrote: > > You know it's a big swell when: > I'm goin to the airport to leave on a trip :( -Foondoggy (our takeoff path took us right over the OB Pier!!) ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Jason Foat Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:13:05 -0800 > Bonzer wrote: > > > > You know it's a big swell when: > > You're content to watch from the beach. ("Doesn't really look that good to me.") Jason ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Surfer Bob Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 18:03:00 -0800 > Bonzer wrote: > > You know it's a big swell when: You can't get anywhere NEAR the impact zone because you can't even get past the giant walls of whitewater. Surfer Bob ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: "John E. Potpie" Date: 8 Mar 1997 01:51:09 GMT : > Bonzer wrote: : > > : > > You know it's a big swell when: : > > The Coastal Marine Forcast doesn't give swell size or a wind report (at first). They just keep babbling about "........large logs can be tossed around like match sticks............" and "..........it is advised to stay away from the ocean beaches........." ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: tbmaddux@alumnae.caltech.edu (Timothy B. Maddux) Date: 5 Mar 1997 02:10:49 GMT In article <01bc2819$1bcacbe0$4f42a7cf@dew.znet.com>, Bonzer wrote: >You know it's a big swell when: ... it's waist high in Summerland. ... the pier winch at Gaviota mysteriously vanishes again. ... you start seeing 20' masts, rigging, sails, and capsized boats floating through the lineup at Hammonds. ... 1-3 days later you start reading about it on alt.surfing. ... you've just gone inland on a week-long trip. -- .-``'. Timothy B. Maddux, Ocean Engineering Lab, UCSB .` .`~ http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~tbmaddux/ _.-' '._ "From the essence of pure stoke springs all creation." ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Charles Whitacre Cushman 3 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:28:36 -0800 you know it is big when: the coast guard is patrolling Morro Bay Harbor mouth, my parents start talking to me about not surfing alone, when the waves break so far out they look small, when the news actually covers the surf, next? charlie ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Tauras Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 19:12:51 -0800 Charles Whitacre Cushman 3 wrote: > > you know it is big when: > the coast guard is patrolling Morro Bay Harbor mouth, > my parents start talking to me about not surfing alone, > when the waves break so far out they look small, > when the news actually covers the surf, > Crazy Joe wakes up and he is riding past 7th and Pacific on his seeley posturpedic, trying to make the section over to ninth street, so he can safely ride the shoulder to 13th and Ocean and have enough speed for the sucking new reef that happens to be our new 3.6 million dollar water treatment plant, aka government welfare project for the LAification of the Lost Coast ;) -- Tauras Sulaitis Daily Estero Bay Surf Report http://www.slonet.org/~tsulaiti/SurfReport.html ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: kdalle@slip.net Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 06:31:37 +0000 Bonzer wrote: > > You know it's a big swell when: > > They show a picture of the OB pier on the news. > > You know it's a big swell when: (go for it alt.surfing) > > Bonzer When the Sloat lot is full of guys with their fists in their pockets talking about getting some work done around the house. jeff ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Jason Foat Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:54:25 -0800 > > You know it's a big swell when: (go for it alt.surfing) > > > > Bonzer > > When the Sloat lot is full of guys with their fists in their pockets > talking about getting some work done around the house. > jeff Correction: When the Sloat parking lot is full of guys with their fists in their pockets watching their dogs hump each other as they talk about getting some work done around the house. ;) Jason ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: surffohio@aol.com (SurffOhio) Date: 5 Mar 1997 22:34:13 GMT > Bonzer wrote: > > You know it's a big swell when: > > They show a picture of the OB pier on the news. Your neighbors are boarding up their windows. Surff ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: pasigal@aol.com (Pasigal) Date: 6 Mar 1997 08:11:58 GMT You know it's a big swell when: (For the east coasters) The ratio of cars leaving the coast to cars heading toward the coast is 50:1. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: catbasah@aol.com (CatBasah) Date: 6 Mar 1997 20:17:28 GMT You paddle out, with what feels like a rusty icepick stuck in your shoulder, the incision still tender, blind with pain, and undoing the very expensive rotator cuff surgery that your doctor is exceedingly proud of and forebidden you to aggravate under any circumstances. Hey, it was worth it. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: hewittt@aol.com (Hewittt) Date: 7 Mar 1997 02:45:35 GMT You know it's a big swell when... You suddenly have two very short boards. The Sloat guys are standing around hand in pockets, watching their dogs hump and then shit all over the beach and wetting their hair to tell their girlfriends they were out when they go back to work on the house. There are cars lined up down the road to the dish at Pillar Point. There are people lined up on the cliffs claiming they were there the day Mark Foo died too. (As many were there as were in Giant's stadium (Irefuse to say 3cum) during the earthquake.) You're not using the board you usually use. My favorite spot is a messy close out. for the east coaster about the cars out and in. I actually was the only car going in during an evacuation of Absecon Island oine year. Grog's, Brigantine, right? And finally the waves are big. T ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: the Sandman Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 07:47:26 -0800 SurffOhio wrote: > > > Bonzer wrote: > > > > You know it's a big swell when: > > > > They show a picture of the OB pier on the news. > > Your neighbors are boarding up their windows. > > Surff the rivers turn to blood and the mountains fall into the sea ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: kptben@aol.com (KPT Ben) Date: 8 Mar 1997 16:41:37 GMT > > Bonzer wrote: > > > > You know it's a big swell when: The boil from San Clemente Island helps you find the takeoff zone. Big caves and gouges in the berm, til you realize it's not a berm-- it's the Pacific Palisades 20-second tuberides... even on closeouts... Directors cut tidal-wave scene from "The Abyss" shot on location, during a lull. -- Ben Weiss Imaging Scientist MetaTools Inc. Rincon, CA ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: wlogger@aol.com (Wlogger) Date: 11 Mar 1997 05:38:33 GMT You drop everything you were doing at the time and just go surfing. You realize you're not in as good shape as you thought while paddling out. You finish the session with an extra sense of accomplishment. You sleep as soundly as you ever have, then wake up and charge for large swell session #2 (and 3 and 4) ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: msalamon@la.hodes.com (Mark Salamon) Date: 13 Mar 1997 17:00:05 GMT You know it's big when it looks like it's breaking in slow motion. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: ric@discoveryinternational.com (Ric Harwood) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:50:26 GMT >> > You know it's a big swell when: You can feel the beach shaking when the waves break. [First time I surfed Watergate Bay, Cornwall.] Ric. -- European Surf forecast links and alt.surfing FAQ: http://www.discoveryinternational.com/ric/surf.htm PGP public Key ID: 0766ABE5 ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: kithill@aol.com (KITHILL) Date: 26 Mar 1997 06:10:42 GMT You know it's a big swell when..... ...you realize what "going off" means after hearing the lip of a huge reef wave pitch out and blast the trough like a howitzer. Kit "I was chiefly conscious of ecstatic bliss at having caught the wave." - Jack London, Learning Hawaiian Surfing , 1907 ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Fred Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:56:54 -0800 Ric Harwood wrote: > > >> > You know it's a big swell when: > > You can feel the beach shaking when the waves break. ...the sunami horn is blowing and your beachfront-parked motorhome was just turned into a houseboat. And, your new pet is sleeping with you because it's frightened...and, it's a dolphin! (8-0) Fred http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/2303/TubeTime.html ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Fred Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 22:55:40 -0800 Bonzer wrote: > > You know it's a big swell when: I know it's gonna be big when I wake up at 4am and my stomach is in knots and I feel like throwing up. Not very funny or dramatic, but that's how it is. :-\ Fred http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/2303/TubeTime.html ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Michael Gemelli Date: 5 Mar 1997 14:12:16 GMT You know its a big swell when: You see more than one other surfer passing you on the parkway, pausing long enough only to reveal the face of a wave starved surfer desperately seeking a fix. You have to go to three beaches before you can convince the local police you've done this before. All the news stations are telling everyone to stay out of the water because one idiot parent forgot about there toddler and they were sucked right off the beach into the surf. The Grogs surf report isn't updated first thing in the morning. You see all the grommets that usually litter the line-up sitting on the benches telling everyone it was bigger earlier when they were out. The local shop sells out of leashes before noon. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Da Kine Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 12:45:36 -0700 You know its a big swell when: The only relevant thing's your friends back home have to tell you is what they had for breakfast, all the while you're stuck in Arizona sucking catus for water. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Mountain Man Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 07:38:59 -0800 Bonzer wrote: > You know it's a big swell when: (go for it alt.surfing) Under the Dawn ... The forward scouts of sunshine and the first stirrings of the earth had already passed through the ancient bay at a thousand miles per hour - hidden to all but the sleepless and the pre-dawn risers. Spinning eastward, the terrestrial horizon showed the faintest patches of glow, and the earliest of the smaller birds raised their heads from their nests and peered down to the old shed where the sound of activity intruded into and stirred the last fragments of night dreams from their soaring minds. The moon was almost full, and had almost set and cast its silvery glow down through the pre-dawn silence and across the lands of the terrestrial realms - firing up the vision of the watery clouds, and intertwining with every leaf and every tree, and every shrub and bush and plant under its geocentric systematics. TTTTTHHHHHHHHRRRRRRR .... TTTTTTHHHHHHHHRRRRRRR .... TTTTTTHHHHHHHHRRRRRRR .... From the shed came the sound - quiet, subdued, patient - regular. The light of the moon was strong and there was no need for the electic light - the activity at the center of this sound could be clearly made out from group of trees where most of the birds nested. Behind this sound continued the sounds of the night. The chirping of a few crickets and couple of frogs. The rustling of possums in the tree tops or on the ridges of roofs. And behind the rustling patter of the nocturnal flow of animal life could still be plainly heard the rumble of the ocean - restless, cyclic, ever singing - ever roaring - ever moving, ever changing in tone and in emotive power .... this morning there was a subdued thunder. Throughout the night it dominated the backgound sounds of nature surrounding the little beach community suburb, and only the occassional sound of a motor car passing through on its way up or down the coast tagged the frame of reality for the twentieth century - otherwise - from the sounds of nature - it could have been any of the millions of nights which had passed this small environment by in the years and ages of the past. TTTTTTHHHHHHHHRRRRRRR .... TTTTTTHHHHHHHHRRRRRRR .... With the light of the moon, the vision immediately told the story of the twentieth century suburbia, with the neatly arrayed houses, and the presence of telegraph and electricity poles and streets. But most in the realm of man slept in the pre-dawn hour. And while there was no light but the moon the vision of the world turned inwards in sleep and dream, and only the world given by the nature of sound reached the senses of the living beings. And all these were carried in a tapestry woven by the thunder of the ocean waters as they moved back and forwards through the extent of the terrestrial night, bearing upon their surface - from a remote storm's fury - the transfer of energy: waves ... and sets of waves. But still, from the shed, the soft but distinct sound: TTTTTTHHHHHHHHRRRRRRR .... TTTTTTHHHHHHHHRRRRRRR .... An old blind wild duck inclined its head to the side, then ruffled its feathers and went back to sleep. TTTTTTHHHHHHHHRRRRRRR .... It was almost done. The surf wax was running thin, but the board needed a new apply of wax, especially considering the tone of the background rumble of the ocean, and the occassion clear and unmistakable sound of an isolated and huge set-wave breaking far out from the others ... TTTTTTHHHHHHHHRRRRRRR .... TTTTTTHHHHHHHHRRRRRRR .... TTTTTTHHHHHHHHRRRRRRR .... It was done. The planet spins. Soon it would be light enough to go down to the water. From distant horizons the big swell moved coastward. Soon it would be time again to watch the horizon from the beyond the line-up, searching for the tell-tale darker ribbon of the storm sets - the messengers of cosmic energy to be harnessed by body, heart, mind and soul. Soon it would be time to go out again under the dawn ... Pete Brown -------------------------------------------------------------------- BoomerangOutPost: Mountain Man Graphics, Newport Beach, {OZ} Thematic Threading: Publications of Peace and Of Great Souls Webulous Coordinates: http://magna.com.au/~prfbrown/welcome.html QuoteForTheDay: "A skillful soldier is not violent; An able fighter does not rage; A mighty conqueror does not give battle; A great commander is a humble man. 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You sit on your porch about a half mile off the break w/ some friends and the kids. They talk. You listen to... traffic on the drag. They go to bed. The traffic dies down. You listen. Is it the wind or "WHOOMPfffftttttt...." Surf check. It's 2am, a block and a half later, balled up sweaty hands tucked in pockets, it's dark and misty and.... LOUD. Go home. Drink water. Pretend to sleep. Listen to music. -- ken@iways.com (Kenneth Powell) ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: gadgetpjt@aol.com Date: 7 Mar 1997 20:50:56 GMT "Bonzer" writes: > You know it's a big swell when: Ric writes a surf report from Morcambe, more seagulls than usual turn up when you're ploughing [I'm being serious, a good tip for all you farmer-surfers out there in alt.surfing land]. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) Date: 10 Mar 1997 23:41:46 GMT Great thread, Bonz! Here's a few more with a Hawaiian slant (like Doug's). > You know it's a big swell when: ... the civil defense sirens are gurgling. ... only Laird is out. ... the Eddie is on--for real this time. sponge sponge@iav.com http://www.iav.com/~sponge (HI Surf Advisory's new url) ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: ZSSC33B@prodigy.com (Mike Patrick) Date: 12 Mar 1997 01:37:08 GMT sponge... LOL killer post bro' Mikeee P ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: Robert Ireland Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:33:21 -0800 Bonzer wrote: > > You know it's a big swell when: > When you get to the coast and the sea mist looks more like fog DaRat~ ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: You know it's a big swell . . . From: John Webster Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 17:00:46 GMT Bonzer wrote: > > You know it's a big swell when: SF: Sloop masts sink halfway down in the troughs off OB; You get drenched standing 10 feet back from the big chain/fence at Fort Point; Spray shoots as high as the Cliff House wall. RI: Narragansett Town Beach is super slo-mo and walled up; Waves wash over the parking lot West of the lighthouse, frightening to death the sightseers sitting in their cars; The surf's so deafening it's drowning out the foghorn; Anywhere: Strange, you just used the bathroom, but right before paddling out you need to use it again... --John W. johnw@cpg.com *** ryde * syde * wayz * street * snow * h2o ***