Sunrise & Shine: Mutant swell brought the goods for a very Feliz Navidad
How about that historic swell that just pummeled the east coast?
I'm seeing "Super-thicc Sunday" thrown around for Florida's weekend finish, and "Monstrous Monday" for New Jersey's buoy-breaking case of the Mondays.
I'm going with "Meatlovers Monday," though, because those waves were meatier than the recent Geminid Meteor shower that peaked just a few days before the swell arrived.
Speaking of peaking, the Delaware Bay buoy off New Jersey topped out at 6.3 meters (~20ft) at 15 seconds!
According to Surfline, that combined peak has only been recorded one other time on that buoy, in 1992.
I opted for "Mediocre Monday" myself, paddling out to scavenge the residual wave in Florida, partly because that's the only day my schedule allowed, but primarily because I have this overwhelming desire to not kill myself surfing.
Still had some fun waves though. They might not have been the early Christmas presents that all those other barrel hounds got, but it was still a fun dip.
To see some of those all-the-meats barrels, scroll through for some screengrabs from all the mayhem.
By the way, Happy 33rd birthday and Happy Christmas to the longest-running beer commercial of all time. I always imagined that if I ever "found this beach," I would also find a peeling outside reef break out front. Feliz Navidad!
Pre-shredded
Thick and Meaty...
Brendan Tighe, the man who fell from space and landed at the bottom of a 20-ft wave. 📸 Dave Nilsen
Noah Schweizer making his way out of a little double drainer before 6:00 PM.
Northeast Florida might have been the meatiest in the Sunshine State.
"And then, Logan Kamen walked through the Lincoln Tunnel..." 📸 Ryan Mack
Have a Happy Christmas everyone. High five for anyone who can name the town where that Corona commercial was filmed.
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