This was SOOOO not the north coast!

Well, I'm convinced I have completely screwed my north coast surf karma. How did I do this you ask? Well one seemingly innocent trip to Costa Rica in February and things just haven't been the same. At said vacation spot, I was surfing head high glassy/smooth, mellow, easy, beachbreak for 2- to 3-sessions per day for 7-days straight. This was the absolute antithesis of our beloved Sonoma Coast. And in this way I must have angered our good mother.


The results:
I've logged at least 4 dry weeks layed up with a bad back which formed one week after my return, then a succession (at least 5) of those classic Saturday or Sunday visits to one of the local breaks where I surfed knee to chest high mush burgers that were tattered by wind, too slow, closed out, blah, blah, blah. Meanwhile Jon D. exclaiming to me: "Really? Your session was that bad? Yesterday that one bar to the north was just realing with about 3 or 4 of us on it. Man you shoulda been there yesterday."


Hence my Karma conspiracy theory. It is likely more attributable to my weekend warrior status and not jumping on it when the time is right.


Anyway this is a first post for the Sonoma Coast Surf Shop blog. Here's a pic from my Costa Rica trip and hopefully I've paid my debt to the gods and will get some love this weekend.