My mind is always trying to remember a past weekends fun or setting expectations for the upcoming weekend. Last Saturday I took a written test for something and Mia dropped me off because it was nearby her office. Then we went to MDR because their fuel dock is the next closest place that I can replace my empty CNG tank. The law of supply and demand was in full force, it was $56 for the tank! The visit brought us up close to Asahi, a boat I see the masts of on my commute to work and we've seen at Catalina.
woke up early on Sunday and met up with Connor to go bodysurfing. We last week on a Friday before work and it was raining, cold, but dang near perfect conditions for LA surf. Since then, he got a new wetsuit. swim fins, and handplane and I was stoked to not be the only board-less wave rider in the lineup. When we walked over to get a view of the beach, the sun was just starting to peak over the houses and apartments to show yet again, really good waves.
"There's a huge sale at Dive N Surf, the wetsuit was only like $100" he explained, as I pulled my 3 year old wetsuit on over my head and remembered the expanding hole on my thigh seam and the over-stretched neck opening that gives me a rash. I got to thinking, maybe I should swing by that shop after. I caught a bunch of fun waves and one delivered a first, I was in a barrel, I was yelling out a hoot of joy and the combination of barrel size and length, it was echoing my hoot all around me. Many of the waves were overhead and offered up rides on their shoulder all the way to the sand and then provided a whomping. I bodysurfed until my hands were so numb that I couldn't paddle efficiently anymore.
Birthday presents and breakfast!
Mia and I went to get breakfast and check out the surf sale, where she insisted to let the new on-sale wetsuit (and Da-Fin's!) be her birthday presents to me - I'm so lucky. After that, Connor called me and told me that we can and should take out two Sunfish sailboats that a neighbor on the dock owns and stores at the dock. So we rigged those up and took them out on the ocean for a few hours, basically for the rest of daylight. The Sunfish look totally retro, they weigh like 300 pounds and probably had water leaks so they were heavy and stable and a lot of fun. More boats were out being used on this February weekend than most summer weekends due to the rumor that whales were over the Redondo Canyon trench. We sailed around the area but never saw whales. On the way back we buzzed past my previous neighbors Chris and Mandy, as they were anchored in the channel, who tossed us a couple beers like the friendly sailors they are. We beached the sailboats on a shoal in the harbor, were drinking our Corona's and standing on a low-tide beach feeling exhausted and lucky to have enjoyed the ocean and weather so much in one day.