Tuesday, 06/16/09 at 6:38AM PDT

Last night, as I was driving home down the Great Highway, I was distracted by the ocean – Shafts of sunlight penetrating through the cloud deck, beaming down onto the textured surface of the ocean, with south swell lines sweeping diagonally across Ocean Beach, rectangles of turquoise and aqua-marine exploding off of the dark-gray canvas of the wave faces.  Well, what a difference 12 hours makes – we still have south swell showing, with pulses easily in the head high range, but last night’s fun conditions have given way to a stiff west wind, which is creating choppy conditions near shore, and the occasional white cap out in the distance.  It is rideable, in a marginal, sloppy, choppy, wedgy sort of way – but nothing to skip work for.  There were only a few guys out where I checked.  Currently, the sky is  grey and plugged up with pouchy low clouds, riding in on the onshore wind.

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