Surfing Ruined My Life

July 2025 Surf Sessions

7-31-25 No Surfing: 0-1 ft
Miles Driven: 12
The buoys were showing a small rise in local wind swell thus I set out on yet another fruitless morning looking for surf that just didn’t exist.  I got home and my wife wanted to take Adagio to the beach for a test run to see if maybe they could start coming to surf with me.  The three of us went up to the north side of the pier and set up our little beach tent and hung out for a bit.  The test run was a success and I think we can even still film.  After that we went home for lunch. I did a bit of ding work.  When my wife was pregnant we had set out sights on making the Fiesta Digs party at the Santa Barbara Zoo provided she felt up to it.  Sure enough tonight was the night and as usual we did it in style.  It was nice to see a bunch of friends and colleagues.  Having a new born can really isolate you from your peers with all the responsibilities and effort that it takes to keep the child alive.  We were really stoked to get out and about.  The party ended at ten but by 8:30 we were exhausted and called it a night.  Check my instagram for pictures. Photo from Hueneme.

7-30-25 No Surfing: 1-2 ft
Miles Driven: 12
Last nights Tsunami was a non event. Lucky for us. There was some minor short period local NW wind swell in the water. I had a look at Strand where the bowl had a knee to thigh high wave.  With steadily rising tide I wasn’t about to give the weak little waves a go.  I drove over to Hueneme.  The Pier also had a weak looking thigh high wave.  If I had nothing to do I probably would’ve groveled it, but with a gigantic surfboard work load I decided it best if I spent the day surfboard building.

7-29-25 No Surfing: 0-1 ft
Today the surf was borderline flat on the entirety of the California coast.  My friends up at Ocean Beach in SF were hard pressed to find a thigh high wave.  Talk about a real summer flat spell.  The forecast still looks absolutely putrid too. I spent my morning fixing dings and my afternoon sanding surfboards.  Later in the evening a Tsunami warning was issued due to a massive earthquake off the coast of Russia by the Aleutian Islands.  Here at Port Hueneme the entire town is either at or below sea level and we are almost completely surrounded by water.  A Tsunami warning can definitely be a tad disconcerting.  Luckily we barely even saw a surge. Photo from the Ventura Point cam.

7-28-25 No Surfing: 1-2 ft
It was yet another day of absolutely useless surf out there.  Judging from the forecast there isn’t any relief in sight.  That was fine since I had some moving work to do and needed all of my strength.  I don’t take on too much moving work these days but every so often if I’m properly motivated I’ll give it a go.  Photo from the Ventura point cam.

7-27-25 No Surfing: 1-2 ft
I woke and was absolutely exhausted from last night’s Pho dinner party I worked.  Upon checking the cams and hearing what reports people had given I decided to jump back into bed with my wife and baby.  A well deserved rest was in order.  After lunch my wife and I took Adagio for a walk in his stroller the entire length of the Hueneme beach front walking path.  The waves were laughable ankle to knee at best.  My afternoon was spent doing some much needed yard work. Photo from Hueneme on my walk.

7-26-25 AM Session: 1-3 ft, Port Hueneme
Time in Water: 1 hr
Waves Surfed: 20
Miles Driven: 2
The surf was absolutely pitiful this morning.  If it hadn’t been for one freak set I saw come off the south side of the pier I wouldn’t have paddled.  As soon as I hit the water it was freezing adding insult to the injury of surfing such poor waves.  I got out there and began doing my thing. My friend AJ paddled, which stoked me out cause I hadn’t seen him in a while and was getting worried about him. The lefts going back into the pier were the better waves.  I lucked into a good one and got a little over zealous and tried to shoot the pier.  A secondary wave I didn’t anticipate came through from the north side and sent me right into the pilings.  I didn’t get hurt but my left fin box was damaged.  I still wanted to surf a few more so I ripped the entire box out, left the fin on the beach and had a blast drawing some interesting lines with my now a-symmetrical fin set up.  In the evening I had to work a build your own Pho style dinner for a party up in the hills of Carpinteria.

7-25-25 AM Session: 2-3+ ft, Port Hueneme
Time in Water: 1 hr
Waves Surfed: 26
Miles Driven: 2
I started off at Hollywood hoping with the combo SW/NW wind swell it would be fun.  There was lots of channel chop on it making the line up completely disorganized.  I headed back home to Hueneme where there was just enough wind swell to add the needed cross up on the south swell to make it less closed out.  I paddled Rockside and hunted down my share of fast corners and even a few tubes .  The water was cold and after an hour I was frozen.  My afternoon was spent glassing. 

7-24-25 AM Session: 2-3+ ft, Leo Carrillo
Time in Water: 2 hrs
Waves Surfed: 14
Miles Driven: 42
The wind was up early in Ventura and it was terribly small. I headed south. County was trash.  Once again I found myself a front a very crowded underwhelming Leo Carrillo.  I was out of options and paddled.   If it wasn’t crowded I would have been stoked.  At the very least it was more consistent than yesterday but more crowded.  I got gnarly and was super aggressive to get a few decent waves.  Even then I was only able to get 14 waves.  Most of them were good for around 5 to 8 turns.  Later that afternoon I played nine holes of golf with my wife.  It was the first time we played since she was 6 months pregnant. Now just four weeks after giving birth she was able to play six holes.  She is a remarkable woman. I shot a 62 playing 9.  After golf I did a bit of shaping.  Talk about a full day. 

7-23-25 AM Session: 2-3+ ft, Leo Carrillo
Time in Water: 2 hrs
Waves Surfed: 14
Miles Driven: 42
A new south swell was showing but unfortunately the angle left Ventura and Oxnard mostly shadowed by the Channel Islands.  Hueneme in its usual fashion was completely walled.  I hit the PCH.  County was not impressive. Zach was at Leo and was going to paddle.  I hadn’t surfed with him since before my son was born.  I drove over and though crowded and bit on the inconsistent side I decided to give it a go mainly cause I was there and didn’t want to drive to Malibu.  We paddled and I opted to sit on the inside where there were some micro waist high runners down the reef.  Every so often I’d sneak to the outside and wait for a real set wave.  With the lack of consistency I could have surfed all day but I had a full work load of glassing to do at my container and had to pull the plug on my session.  I had a few decent waves that made the drive worth while.

7-22-25 AM Session: 1-2+ ft, Port Hueneme
Time in Water: 1 hr
Waves Surfed: 16
Miles Driven: 2
The surf was especially down this morning.  I saw a few little bowls off the south side of the pier and rather than go home to a crying baby I decided to paddle the absolutely deplorable waves.  I always wondered why I’d see new dads out surfing some of the most horrible conditions imaginable.  I get it now.   Upon jumping in I discovered that the water was freezing, around the high fifties.  Had I known that I probably wouldn’t have paddled.  It was about as bad and grovely as it looked.  Jeffery was supposed to show up and luckily I got out before he got there or I would’ve had to endure the crap cold waves even longer.  I got home and took my wife to lunch.  My afternoon was spent painting, shaping and sanding surfboards. 

7-21-25 AM Session: 2-3+ ft, Point Mugu
Time in Water: 1.5 hrs
Waves Surfed: 28
Miles Driven: 20
Though the swell was down there were enough waves left to leave Hueneme walled.  You could track down the odd ball corner but it wasn’t the session I was looking for.  The wind was mostly north and perfect for Base.  I talked Jeffery into taking me and sure enough there were some perfectly groomed offshore chest plus waves to be had with no one out.  The tide was a bit high and unfortunately this swell cleaned out most of the sand leaving nothing but sea wall in its wake.  This meant lots of backwash.  Right off the bat I lucked into a handful of good ones.  I also got jacked super hardcore by the extreme backwash that was at times bigger than the wave I was paddling into.  Towards the back half of the surf finding a decent one became near to impossible which was our cue to leave.  My afternoon was spent sanding surfboards. 

7-20-25 AM Session: 2-3+ ft, Hollywood
Time in Water: 1.5 hrs
Waves Surfed: 34
Miles Driven: 12
With the  higher tide and drop in swell I thought I’d have a look out front.  There was still too much south in the water causing Hueneme to be completely walled.  Not sure what options were left afforded to me I drove over to Hollywood.  To my surprise there was still a waist plus wave coming in. I knew the wind window was going to be short and wasted no time in paddling.  Ryan showed up just as the onshores began to take hold of the surf.  I was about to bail but stayed another thirty  minutes to keep him company.  Poor Dylan showed up right as I was leaving and at that point the surf was absolute trash.  After the surf Ryan and Dylan came by the house to meet Adagio. Since Sunday is now family day my wife and I decided to try out our new all terrain stroller we got and took Adagio on a mellow hike in the Santa Monica Mountains.  The last time we hiked in that area my wife was barely four months pregnant.  It’s crazy how fast time passes.

7-19-25 AM Session: 3-4+ ft, Hollywood
Time in Water: 2.5 hrs
Waves Surfed: 38
Miles Driven: 10
The wind finally backed off this morning allowing for clean chest plus conditions at Hollywood.  Ryan and Duane met me and we were super stoked with fun rip-able waves and even a few tubes.  Between the tide rising and the wind it felt like we were surfing three different sessions.  First it was glassy peaky and low tide.  Then the south wind came up and it had a side shore thing going for it.  Then the wind died again the ocean became a sheet of glassy.  The tide had also gotten full high and the surf was very lully and back wash riddled.  At that point I decided to pull the plug and head home.  I’d been out for over two hours and had caught more than my full of good waves.  Later that afternoon I had to work a bear of a wedding in Carpinteria over looking Rincon for two hundred people, five courses plated. They flew in the cake from some bakery in Minnesota on a private jet.  It had to be easily a half a million dollar wedding.  I thought it went pretty well, but the new owners complained that the plate up for the main course went too slow.  I disagree, what do I know I’ve only been in the Santa Barbara Catering scene for 20 years and worked with just about every caterer and notable chef around. 

7-18-25 AM Session: 3-5+ ft, Leo Carrillo
Time in Water: 1.5 hrs
Waves Surfed: 11
Miles Driven: 50
Today was yet another morning of windy conditions here in Ventura.  Over it I cruised back over to Leo hoping for another day like yesterday.  The crowd was double from the day before and sets more inconsistent.  I had made the drive and conceited to the paddle.  Considering the severity of the crowd and the fact that there was an entire contingent of groms sitting on my inside peak I spent my time waiting on the outside for the bombs where if you are patient you can always get a wave.  The waves I did get were better and all runner down the reef.  Since it was quality over quantity I got way less waves than I would have liked.  Later that evening I had a small forty person birthday party to work in Montecito. 

7-17-25 AM Session: 3-5+ ft, Leo Carrillo
Time in Water: 1.5 hrs
Waves Surfed: 19
Miles Driven: 50
It could have been another fun day at the Oxnard Beaches but the early onshore winds had something else in mind.  Ryan and I found ourselves staring at blown out Hollywood and decided to head south down the PCH in search of cleaner pastures.  County was our first stop and the backside left looked very do-able, not trusting the wind we had just was escaped the two of us continued on to Leo.  There were some solid chest to head plus sets and since the tide was still a bit low for that wave the crowd was very manageable.  We paddled and at first I was focused on just set waves.  Then I realized that the inside waves were actually doubling up and had more face to ride, whereas the bigger ones were mostly closing out.  This has been a common theme for Leo this season plagued by an odd close out in the middle of the wave.  Maybe there is too much sand over there.  Despite that I found plenty of runners worth five to eight turns.  It was also my first time surfing the LA zone in two months due to my wife’s pregnancy and now having the responsibility of a new born.  It felt great to be back at one of my favorite summer points.  There was some random guy filming and he actually got a few decent clips of me that he posted on his YouTube channel.  My afternoon was spent sanding surfboards. 

7-16-25 AM Session: 3-4+ ft, Hollywood
Time in Water: 2 hrs
Waves Surfed: 32
Miles Driven: 10
There aren’t many days in the summer worth getting excited about in Oxnard but this morning was one of them.  As I walked up the beach at Hollywood I was greeted with chest to head high peaks up and down the beach.  Some were so heavy they were folding over themselves and it was glassy and empty.  I alerted the troops though only Ryan showed up.  Bizarro came and filmed.  For a solid hour or so we were trading off really fun, sometimes gnarly heavy waves all to our lonesome.   The tide began to fill in and the waves got a bit backwashy but still super kill-able.  We pushed through another half hour.  At that point the backwash got to the point where at times it was as big as the wave I was riding.  On some it was so bad I couldn’t even get in.  Right about this time I paddled into a rare overhead bomb and while dropping in the background wash got under my board and sent me on a five foot air drop to the flats.  Upon sticking it my heel went right through the front of my board.  I tried to catch a few more after that to as to end on a keeper but it didn’t really happen for me.  I’m running out of boards here. I’ve been so busy with shaping, glassing and ding repair I haven’t had time to fix or shape any boards for myself. The rest of my afternoon was spent sanding a batch of surfboards for customers.

7-15-25 PM Session: 2-4+ ft, Port Hueneme
Time in Water: 1 hr
Waves Surfed: 18
Miles Driven: 2
My kid had another wellness checkup with his pediatrician.  In my day they used to call them physical exams but these days even doctor appointments have to have a positive spin on them.  Everything went well and Adagio was perfectly healthy.  After the appointment my wife wanted to stop by her Museum and show Adagio to her co-workers.  It was the first time we presented him to a group of people. Later that evening I paddled the north side of the pier with my boy Tony.  The new south was beginning to show with solid chest plus sets.  Most of the larger waves were walled in classic Hueneme fashion.  Every so often a rip-able left bowl would come off the pilings so I thrived on those.  According to the forecasts this new swell is supposed to stick around for days.

7-14-25 AM Session: 2-4+ ft, Santa Clara River Mouth
Time in Water: 1.5 hrs
Waves Surfed: 26
Miles Driven: 18
Whatever swell angle that was working for Oxnard yesterday certainly was not happening today.  I got word from Ryan that Ventura Harbor was substantially larger and headed over.  It was definitely bigger but also a bit more stretched and hard to line up.  The bars haven’t been right out there all summer.  We paddled the River Mouth and for the first half of the session I couldn’t get into a rhythm.  Jeffery paddled deep River Mouth shortly after.  Ultimately Ryan and I floated down more near the Knoll and that was where I got my best waves including two proper barrels.  Not long after finding that bar the high tide and WNW wind killed it.  My evening was spent working a cooperate event in Ojai.

7-13-25 AM Session: 2-3 ft, Hollywood
Time in Water: 1 hr 15m
Waves Surfed: 23
Miles Driven: 10
There was a bit of new south swell showing. Considering the low tide and the fact that Hueneme Fest was still happening I decided to cruise to Hollywood.  Though small I saw some fun looking glassy waist to stomach high peaks with a light crowd.  I grabbed my grovel board and paddled.  There were peaks up and down the beach with guys spread out.  I picked a peak all to myself and began dismantling the small rip-able surf.  This random kooky older guy and his twenty something year old daughter (at least I assumed it was his daughter) drifted into my peak.  I paid them no mind and continued doing my thing.  The best wave I had seen all morning rolled in and I set up for it and began driving down the line.  Dude and chick of course found themselves directly in my path.  I smashed the lip in his face then blasted the girl with the spray from my cut back.  On the way back out dude had the nerve to yell at me that I was reckless and surfed dangerously close to them.  Not having patience for his kook entitlement I gave him my take on his kooky ass.  Then he points to one of the beach houses and says that’s my house, like that should give him some rights out there.  I’ve been surfing Hollywood for nearly twenty years and have never seen this guy.  Just because you have ten million dollars to buy a house on the beach doesn’t give you the right to the lineup.  That right has to be earned from time put in.  The pair of kooks got out and the tide killed it shortly after.  Fresh off the surf my wife and I left Adagio with her mother and we went over to enjoy a little bit of the Hueneme Festival.   We ate bad carnival food, listened to an alright Bruno Mars tribute band and rode the ferris wheel.  When we got home we took well deserved nap with our baby.

7-12-25 AM Session: 1-2+ ft, Port Hueneme
Time in Water: 1 hr
Waves Surfed: 24
Miles Driven: 2
I guess it wouldn’t be summer without a multi day run of below waist high surf. How I found the motivation to paddle this morning was beyond me.  Maybe I can attribute it to just wanting to get out of my house which included a crying baby, postpartum wife and my mother in law, who is constantly slipping me the evil eye of contempt.  With that in mind all of a sudden knee to waist high waves seemed very appealing.  This weekend there was the annual summer Port Hueneme festival making parking insane.  I had to drive around for fifteen minutes before finding a spot which was over by Rockside thus that was where I paddled.  Conditions were super glassy, so much so that it was hard to see the actual waves rolling in against the gray sky flat light.  The two hours sleep I got last night courtesy of my fussy baby didn’t help either.  I thought t I saw some right hand runners all the way down by the second set of flags.  Once I got out there I realized it was just another close out like the rest of the beach.  I came for rights and ironically all I surfed was racy little lefts.  If only we could have had some solid waves with those conditions.  My afternoon was spent chefing for a small wedding up at the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden.  As always we nailed it. 

7-11-25 AM Session: 1-2+ ft, Port Hueneme
Time in Water: 1 hr
Waves Surfed: 26
Miles Driven: 2
Today was another tiny day surfing the Pier.  At the very least it was glassy, though sometimes I find that Hueneme is actually more peaky with a little wind on it Today was no exception.  Most of the larger sets were pretty walled.  As always I found a few worthy ones.  I got home and shaped a Pop Fizz for a customer in South Carolina.  I ended my day working a charity thing in Santa Barbara.

7-10-25 AM Session: 1-2+ ft, Port Hueneme
Time in Water: 1 hr
Waves Surfed: 21
Miles Driven: 2
Unlike yesterday morning today was somewhat clean.  There was wind but with more north in direction allowing for side-shore conditions at Hueneme.  It was still super tiny but I wanted to surf and the Pier had a couple of wedges off the south side.  One thing about summer it’s easy to get in the habit of not surfing when it’s small.  Then days turn into weeks and next thing you know it’s winter and you are completely out of shape.  I forced the paddle and actually had some fun in the very small surf. The thing about tiny waves is no one surfs it so you get the line up to yourself.  I really enjoy just surfing an absolute power hour by myself.  After the surf my wife and I had to go to Santa Barbara for her two week post birth obstetrician check up.  We left Adagio at home with the nanny and made a date out of it getting lunch at the Shoreline Cafe at Lead Better Beach.  When we used to live just on the cliff from there we used to frequent the place.  It was the longest we had been away from Adagio since he was born and we took full advantage of a parent hooky day.  Once back home it was a rude awakening of reality in the form of a crying baby.

7-9-25 No Surfing: 1-2+ ft
Miles Driven: 2
It’s not often that the waves are absolutely terrible around here, but today was one of those days.  Not only was it barely thigh high but it was windy too.  I got word LA was tiny as was Ventura Harbor.  Since I had lots of surfboard work to get done I welcomed the morning off from surfing.  Instead, I did some Shaping the first half of the day.  Then after lunch I went over to my container and did some glassing.  Just a day in the life of a surfboard builder. Photo from Hueneme.

7-8-25 AM Session: 2-4+ ft, Point Mugu NVB
Time in Water: 1.5 hrs
Waves Surfed: 24
Miles Driven: 19
After all this time in and out of hospitals I’m starting to become a pro at the whole ordeal.  We got word that the doctor was discharging my wife by early afternoon.  Jeffery was heading back to the Base and I left to join him.  My wife would leave with her mother and the baby while I got barreled.  Base was smaller than yesterday but a little more peaky and rip-able.  There were still a few hallow ones but they were harder to make.  We both got lots of fun turns and a few head dips.  I’d say it was worth the effort.  I got home and did lunch with my wife and mother in law.  Everyone was definitely happy to be home.  My afternoon was spent glassing surf boards.

7-7-25 AM Session: 3-4+ ft, Point Mugu NVB
Time in Water: 1.5 hrs
Waves Surfed: 15
Miles Driven: 19
I woke up in the Hospital for the third time in two weeks.  Luckily my wife’s condition was stable.  I got word from Jeffrey that he was going to the Base.  Just as I received this tid bit of information my mother in law happened to walk into the room.  Considering my wife wasn’t going to be alone and the fact that leaving my mother in law and I in a small hospital room would be the equivalent of a cage match I decided it was best for everyone if I bailed and met Jeffery.  The Base was solid though a bit walled.  I’d say nine out of ten were close outs.  I did manage three really decent left tubes that stoked me out.  Besides that I got mostly beatings pulling into shore break dumpers.  After the surf I got a little bit of ding repair done.  With everything that has been going on due my wife’s health I welcomed a little ding repair.  It was the only situation where there was something in my life that wasn’t working that I could fix.  The work really relieved me of a ton of stress I was carrying.  I met my wife back at the Hospital for dinner and another night sleeping on a recliner.  I’d sleep on a bed of nails if it meant keeping my family together. Hopefully if all goes well she will be discharged tomorrow. 

7-6-25 AM Session: 2-3+ ft, Hollywood
Time in Water: 2 hrs
Waves Surfed: 27
Miles Driven: 10
Every thing was feeling good and I thought just maybe my wife and I would finally be able to settle into our new life as parents.  I got word early that there were still waves but that everywhere was pretty mixed up due to the small wind swell that had filled in overnight.  My buddy looking around said Hollywood looked the best thus I just cruised and paddled.  It was about chest high plus and clean except for the fact that with the swell mix the waves were all over the place and not breaking in any conform manner what so ever.  To add insult to injury the waves had a bit of channel chop on it.  All that considered there were some below sea level drainers that had my name on it.  My ability to surf strange fucked surf paid off as I scored some fun rides and even a few tubs with absolutely no one out because to the average surfer eye what I was surfing probably looked borderline not surf-able.  I came home did lunch with my wife than spent the afternoon sanding surfboards.  In the evening my wife and I took Adagio for a walk around the block in his new stroller.  When we got back she felt like she was suffering from another bout of hypertension.  We took her blood pressure and sure enough she was back up in the 160’s.  So it was another trip to the ER and then back to being admitted on another 24 hour magnesium drip.  My wife and I were devastated.  We were even more distraught when we found out our insurance was attempting to deny us coverage claiming it was an elective hospital stay.  The ER clocked her blood pressure at 181/98 before medication.  That sounds pretty serious to me.  Most stroke victims don’t have blood pressure readings that high on admittance.  Now we are fighting that battle on top of everything else. 

7-5-25 AM Session: 2-3+ ft, The Hotel
Time in Water: 2 hrs
Waves Surfed: 30
Miles Driven: 12
Finally home from the hospital again my life slowly returned back to normal.  Whatever shred of normalcy one could cling onto after having a new born. There was still a bit of south swell showing and the sun was out.  Bizarro and I headed to the Hotel to film as it was chest high and somewhat peaky.  The tide was a mid tide all morning leaving a little too much water on all the bars.  There were some good waves to be had but it was difficult to track them down and even harder to ride due to backwash and deep spots.  I fought the good fight for two hours and definitely stacked a couple of keeper clips though I doubt anything of “A” quality.  My afternoon was spent in my container glassing surfboards. 

7-4-25 No Surfing: 4-5+ ft
The doctors decided that my wife’s blood pressure was at a controlled level and with blood pressure medication we were ensured that she would be alright. We got discharged around 1ish and headed to CVS to fill the prescription.  I wanted to maybe surf but the wind had come up very hard blowing out everywhere in Ventura and I didn’t want to fight the crowds of Malibu or Leo.   I got my wife settled in at home.  Bizarro was manning the smoker like he does every Fourth of July.  Meanwhile I did a bit of sanding in the garage.  Then we are a little feast of ribs with all the fixings.  The night ended with our annual screening of Independence Day.  I hope to surf tomorrow. Photo from the Ventura Point cam.

7-3-25 No Surfing: 2-3+ ft
First thing in the morning after a somewhat stressful night I took Adagio with me to the Hospital so that my wife could breast feed him and we could keep her spirits high.  I heard there was a solid south swell showing though surfing was the furthest thing from my mind.  My family was my first priority.  Unfortunately I couldn’t hang out all day.  I had a catering gig in Carpinteria and was not in a position to cancel.  I took the baby home and left him with our nanny. The gig went fine considering how exhausted physically and mentally I was only on about three hours sleep.  I got home around ten and decided to take my baby back to hospital and spend the night with my wife as a family.  There was a couch in the room that suited my sleeping needs just fine.  Apparently my wife suffered from eclampsia a somewhat common condition in both the later stages of pregnancy and early postpartum.  What an ordeal.  With any luck they might release us for the 4th of July.  Photo from Ventura Point Cam.

7-2-25 No Surfing: 1-2 ft
Miles Driven: 12
I had a look at the Hotel early but it was very small, maybe knee high with some wind on it.  Not motivated I went to my trailer once again to get a jump on some glassing work.  Around 5 I headed home to enjoy a relaxing evening with my wife and baby.  On the way I fielded a call from my wife asking me to pick up a blood pressure reader cause she felt she was suffering from hypertension.  I complied and when I got home her blood pressure ended up being 166/95.  This was definitely grounds for going to the ER.  Bizarro rushed her to St Johns in Oxnard while I stayed home with Adagio.  She was admitted to the hospital for high blood pressure and had to undergo 24 hours of magnesium drip.  I spent my first solo night with the baby and though stressful he and I survived the night. Photo from Hueneme

7-1-25 AM Session: 1-3 ft, Port Hueneme
Time in Water: 1 hr
Waves Surfed: 22
Miles Driven: 12
There was still a bit of south swell in the water.  With the low tide I decided to have a look at the Hotel.  It was small and wind already onshore.  Over it I decided to get a bit of glass work done and look at the Pier before dark.  Around six I cruised to Hueneme and there was a waist plus wind blown bowl off the south side of the Pier.  I got out there and made the most out of the junk surf.  At least I got wet.  With the new baby my surf time is way more precious then it once was and therefore I try to not squander any water time.