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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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That clip makes me want to remove my fins!
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tradryan
Big Wall climber
San Diego
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NorCalNomad... it was a dolphin.
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I was out a couple of days ago in the evening sitting up on the board waiting for a wave when just in front of me this huge gaping mouth full of sharp pointy teeth comes out of the water in the general direction of my face. I just about crapped myself in the half second it took to realize it was a sea lion with a head the size of a cow's coming up for air.
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NorCalNomad
Trad climber
San Francisco
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I've seen my share of dolphins in the bay/ ocean growing up here...definitely didn't look like any dolphin I've ever seen. Had a delta shape with no curve on the trailing edge.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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U guys know of the NorCal dood who has been bitten twice by Great Whites in a 15 year span? It ain't a matter of if...
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rbob
climber
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I was out a couple of days ago in the evening sitting up on the board waiting for a wave when just in front of me this huge gaping mouth full of sharp pointy teeth comes out of the water in the general direction of my face. I just about crapped myself in the half second it took to realize it was a sea lion with a head the size of a cow's coming up for air.
Oh man - I laughed out loud...
Out there in the deep space of the ocean of the red triangle... there are lot of spooky thoughts (and creatures) that can creep up on you.
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
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Some more good times in the Gulf.
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Some Random Guy
climber
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those gulf pics look fun. you ever go out and surf the wakes of the tanker ships? i'd do it if i lived there.
i was out around judah last week sitting there waiting for a bomb and two dolphins (or porpoises?) jumped fully out of the water literally right beside me. like two feet to my right. scared the sh#t out of me at first until i turned and realized they were mammals. then it was all cool. the conditions at ob haven't been too great lately but i have been out a bunch and there have been an abnormally higher amount of dolphins and porpoises around. they seem to like me. they always come real close.
deadman's sf......this place is GNAR when it gets big. check out the guy at 2:25
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don't get caught inside.....
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Not so much about surfing as about dolphins, but I kinda dig it, having been in a comparable situation out by Catalina some time ago.
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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Enjoyed seeing the shots of Deadman's. Surfed it a lot in the late 70's early 80's. Not surprised to see a crowd in the picture. Chuck Clance was a GGNRA lifeguard at the time. The name came not from the break but from the bodies that washed in there from bridge jumpers. Clance did the fishing out. Pee Wee {Bill Bergerson} was King in those days. Tim Pierce was KB power.
lars
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Aug 14, 2013 - 12:02pm PT
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Despite all of our idealism and search for it, there is also impinging on us, other realities. Here is a wave in Java:
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Aug 14, 2013 - 12:21pm PT
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Thankfully, our waves here in Santa Cruz are pretty clean. These photos of me were taken by young photographer Jaiden Hopkins a few weeks ago at 26th ave.
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bixquite
Social climber
humboldt nation
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Aug 14, 2013 - 12:21pm PT
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tahiti starts today, go seabass
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Aug 14, 2013 - 12:35pm PT
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I'm with you, C-Mac. The season can't get started soon enough. I'm needing it.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Aug 14, 2013 - 02:26pm PT
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^^^Greg you must be speaking of skiing, truly a complimentary mountain pursuit!!! :^)
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Aug 18, 2013 - 09:25pm PT
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