Dawn Patrol - 5/9/2021

And knowing La wanted to sleep in late for Mother's Day - and that we always get blessed with a south swell on Mother's Day, Marlon and I did an early dawn patrol on this Mother's Day.  He brought his longboard and the GoPro - I brought the wide 4'10" with the HS1420CS/chopped 300 stab/A+ 60 cm fuselage.

The swell was up - the waves were definitely bigger than yesterday.  Marlon and I both paddled to the outside.  I saw him catch a few really good ones before I caught my first.

I got on some fantastic rides - super long, super fast with a few hard cranking 180 switchback turns thrown in.  Overhead on the takeoffs - head high walls all the way to the middle break.  I should have actually bolted on the CF1200 - it was that good.

I caught one over 700' and decided to get back in so we wouldn't be late (getting home before La woke up).  As we were leaving the crowd seemed to go into overdrive and the swell was backing down just a hair - the early bird gets the worm!!!

Mother's Day Surfing

La actually asked to go surfing on Mother's Day -

Have I said I love this truck???  Four boards, two paddles, chairs, snacks, extra clothes and more on board!

I got to surf the longboard and the Starboard Element (and I should have surfed the ULI Lopez and the Wavestorm to make it an ALL BOARD day - but I just farted around instead).

A couple of "jellyfish" body surfing.  These pictures are from La's phone - I'll post more from the GoPros shortly

UPDATE:  Here are the GoPro pictures

This was Marlon's first time SUPing in the waves - he said it was real easy to catch anything that came by.  I can see La and Marlon taking SUP surfing breaks a lot more now.

Some DC Checking

Knowing our time here in the Northern Virginia/DC area is growing really short, Las asked that we spend Mother's Day checking out parts of DC that we haven't focused on yet. Capitol Hill, The National Art Museum, The Navy Memorial and the Federal Trade Commission were all the stops we had on this perfect weather'd Mother's Day!