Green Means Go

Every year around this time, wildflowers begin to appear, signifying the end of winter. When the Gaviota Coast looks like this, you should know it's time to let your wetsuit...

Normally, I take all the photos you see on Goleta Surfing.com myself. But this winter, we've had so much great surf, we thought it might be fun to see how...

January 8th, 2016 Blue skies. Not what most of us imagine when we think El Nino. If El Nino means baby, this kid's got dry diapers, but the surf has...

January 7th, 2016 Thursday morning brought a 6' high tide and a healthy increase in swell size. Not a healthy combo for a sand deprived coastline. Preparations had been made,...

January 5th, 2016 The weather experts were calling for 2016  to be welcomed by two solid weeks of rain and surf. Expectations were high, and surfers were on high alert....

Pearl Harbor Day December 7th, 2015. Pearl Harbor Day. Appropriately enough, bombs were dropping along the California coast. OK, not real bombs. Not F-bombs. But big waves.... The surf had...

Clean Walls December 6th, 2015 and things were starting to feel like winter may be coming. Fall hadn't brought much in the way of waves yet and we were growing...

Granite Escape 2.0 We did it. We made it back up to our favorite spot in the Western Sierras. Early the first morning, Enzo and I looked out across the...

El Nino Preview? October 2015 has been a hot one. And we've been getting a fairly steady flow of surf. Swells from all direction have been sneaking in, sometimes when...

Going Backside It's that time again. The winter swells start to dry up and we look to the back country for our diversions. Due to another drought year, our spring...