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.

Puerto...Or Porto?

El Porto was massive today--no wave riders were present (that I could discern from the couldron of whitewater).  In fact, from Manhattan to El Porto, I saw not a single soul in the water.  Moving past Porto into Gundo, there were a few brave souls out--and to quote all of them that I talked to, their sessions involved "poundings."  I don't doubt it--there was a serious amount of water moving out there today.

South of Manhattan Pier, the waves were large

North of Manhattan Pier, now at El Porto--or should I say, "El Puerto"?--the waves

were even larger.

Moving into El Segundo, you had to be willing to take a beating to session today, though it was

more manageable than Porto or Pier.

Before the reform, this wicked little wave would spin a barrel perpendicular to shore.

More shots from today's South Bay tour will be posted over the next few days.

Until then...

FIN.

Please welcome South Bay Central's newest advertiser...

...South Bay BMW!  Check them out through the link box on the right side when you are done viewing content.  I'm really stoked that they are signing on as an advertiser, and I encourage you to check out their website.  New content will be up soon.  I received back some more film from the day I took the photo of Natalie Anzivino at Manhattan Pier tucking into the tubular hollows of a sizable wave.  I've also been doing a considerable amount of Polaroid/Fuji instant film photography, so I'll be sharing some scans from my Polaroid 100 Land Camera prints soon too. 

Until then...

Experiment, experiment, experiment!

Check out this photo I took yesterday of a girls' soccer team's breakaway play.  I think it's rather groovy.  Absolutely no Photoshop was used to enhance this photo's sense of motion.

Surf pictures from today at Seal Beach coming tomorrow.