DEEP March/April 2014 Green Issue | Page 41

Bird's eye view of Ventura Point. The way I figure it, surf prediction is a lot like a blind date. The waves are never what your friends make them out to be, almost always shorter than advertised, but it has been a long dry stretch so you are going to work with whatever shows up. Those alluring deep purple blobs on the computer generated swell map are thousands of nautical miles from our beaches. Oh they look so impressive at that distance but they need to squeeze through the narrow confines of our swell window, sneak past the guardian offshore islands and hop over the underwater obstacle shelves and reefs before they land on our doorstep. So much of their stature and symmetry can be distorted or tainted by the time we get that all important first impression. The run of immaculate surf that graced our shores from the day after the Rincon Passing through the Rincon enclave. DEEPZINE.com 41