THE COVE

Scanned from beautifully detailed medium format negatives, here are two cropped shots of Palos Verdes' beloved Cove, taken the same day as these:

Three different craft fly-by.

Swell lines were breaking all the way out to Ski Jump.  If I recall the position of the Ski Jump lineup, your body does more or less what the whitewater is doing if you blow the Ski Jump take off.

Rides in the Wild Surf

On Sunday, February 28th, 2010 the following rides were executed at an undisclosed location in the South Bay...

 

Body Glove team manager Matt Chernega, wishing he hadn't in 3...

  

2...

  

...and 1.

  

Casual and upright off the bottom, an unidentified surfer turns off the bottom.

  

Another casual, upright--but strong--bottom turn executed by an unidentified surfer, likely hoping for a section to bounce off of. 

An aggressive, hopeful backdoor duck into the pocket ends in the "road to nowhere" for this unfortunate surfer--it's always worth a try, though.

  

  

 Matt Chernega, glad he did.

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South of these brave attempts, lonely "Tanker Reef" capped, with no one courageous (or stupid) enough to attempt paddling in:

while the rough inside of "El Puerto" pumped.

FIN.