Local’s Night
In the middle of the week, in the middle of July, 2011.
We were deep into our usual summer pattern; foggy morning, breezy afternoon. The
evening windswells had been hit and miss. You never knew if it was working or not until
you actually went and looked at it.
This afternoon, it was working. We went down mostly because it was hot, and if there
were waves that would be frosting. There was lots of green, glassy frosting to be had.
And to make it even better, there were only a handful of guys on it. All locals, all friends.
The waves weren’t huge, but they were clean, and the water temperature was very inviting.
Joseph Yee was getting lots of fun ones.
Of course this guy was on it. Vinny Leonelli
at his home break, tearing it up.
Suri Sherman has been out every time we go down there lately.
As soon as we got the camera out, he pulled into this baby…
For once we showed up on the day that was a little bigger than yesterday!
All the guys were digging it and charging hard.
Even this guy skim boarding was pushing it to the limit.
This guy was shredding his own peak down the beach a ways.
This was Vinny’s third session of the day. And he still had tons of energy.
Sheppy came out and caught some nice long rights.
It was such a nice evening, Bruce Waugh even had to get wet.
Joseph Yee and Vinny Leonelli.
The look on Suri’s face says it all.
S-T-O-K-E-D !
Curtis Stoddard left his wetsuit on the beach and caught a couple of little insiders.
That tells you about the water temp….
Just back from the other side of the globe, Colin Schildhauer was stoked to be back in the Goleta surf.
Look at that glassy wall..
Pesky was on it.
Taylor Nisbet paused to give us the traditional double finger salute before he paddled out.
As the tide climbed, the waves diminished and the lulls got longer.
But there were still some fun little waves to be had.
Yee.
Vinny.
Evenings like this make the work week fly by.
Viva Goleta.
