last day

its that time already.  this is the last day before you gotta starting coughing up the cash.
damnit.

wrightsville beach wednesday woooooo

powering thru the spray

c street:  fat tide and strong offshore wind but still fun.  lots of people out that i hadn't seen in a while.  another winter storm gives us something to do early in the morning.

Winter Surfing Wrightsville Beach

Kevin on the Hot Tuna



Ian on the Simulator

 Friday was throwing up some waves as the "biggest winter storm ever"  was about to pound the Northeast (biggest since 1978 anyway).  Nonetheless, waves were at Wrightsville Beach for most of the morning and the lineup was semicrowded from Mercers to Crystal Pier.  Turns out, I knew the guy on the yellow stand up board.  Kevin was out test riding Ian Baulding's "Hot Tuna" stand up board and Ian was riding his new "Simulator."  You can check out his stuff at http://ianbalding.com/
Oh, when did we starting name winter storms.  Nemo?  what?  I don't umderstand that at all. 

wednesday storm thursday swell

shutting down on some



smaller on others

walls on others

A deadly winter storm swept across the country and pushed some hard wind out of the S on Wednesday gusts upward of 45kts.  Luckily the storm passed offshore with little ill effect on us here in Wilmington.  Thursday morning the wind rolled to the West (at 20 kt) and the temp  dropped down from the upper 70's and was now in the 50's.  Have to say it was a little hard to get motivated.  Checked  a few spots and snapped a few pics at the south end of Wrightsville Beach and settled on Columbia Street for a paddle out.  Now today it is flat again.

forgotten frames

We are stuck in the first artic blast of the season hits Wrightsville Beach .  It dipped to 25 degrees with a 13kt N wind this morning.  The water temp is still hovering at 50 and no waves to speak of.  I decided to change up the title, not sure if i like it but it will stay for now.  Also threw up a couple frames that somehow never made it off the card.  These are back from October.  AR how bouts some more tropic pics.  hugh said, "what up?"

waiting for something

messing with the 0's and 1's



illustrator shapes

everyone that does this i guess get the message sometime.  "you have reached to mb limit."  so i got rid of some unnecessary photo albums and freed some storage and waited to see what would happen.  meanwhile illustrator and photoshop experiments oh and fishing for reds, stripers and specks filled the void of surfing while the flu runs amuck in the house.  water temps have finally dropped into the upper 50's.  i checked the photos storage today and now its at 5100mb from 1000mg, go figure.
i guess i am gonna keep posting now.  thanks for checking in.  more to come soon.


phone dump



xxxx habanero is great on everything and haven't manned up to the ghost pepper yet.

beach morphology looks trouty

finally got a mini card for the phone.  droppped a few here.  hot sauce.  there have been some random swell missed a couple of days due to speckled trout.  they were calling me and most of the time ya can't do both, at least not in my world.  oh tropical pepper co. is some of the best hot sauce on the world.  xxxx habanero is my choice, gotta try the ghost pepper sauce next.