You missed it. Sorry bro but the place you surfed last week is insane right now.
February 17 2006, 8:18 PM
At this moment the wave cast on the U.S. side, in far eastern Lake Ontario is in the darkest red to almost purple. This indicates wave heights over twenty feet. There has to be some desolate and abandoned beach scape with hidden waves covered by the darkness of night and the inhospitablity of these hypothermic wind chills. To be there when the wind switches direction or die's would be my wish at this moment. If only there was such a thing as a ginny in a bottle.
I know. I see it on the map. Selkirk Beach State Park must be huge right now. I go on google maps and just drool over the computer keys at some of the sheltered turns along the lakeshore that could be going off right now. I'm contemplating driving up 81 tomorrow and checking it out, but know it won't nearly be as good as it must have been this afternoon. Gotta catch it on a gale to really see the potential of some of these spots. But yes I know, I missed it. Score small surf here, but would have loved to checked out spots around Oswego although way up around Selkirk and north bound towards 1000 islands area. Still blowing onshore tomorrow, but not nearly as strong I'm guessing. To think Selkirk is near 20 feet, just to see it would be a sight, let alone trying to surf whatever's near there that could be a little protected.
That was probably the place to be this afternoon. Full exposure to West swell along Ontario's southshore. If you go to google maps and check out the satellite photo, you can see there is a breakwall that would protect from the strong west current that must have been ripping today. The park is open all year. Wonder if anybody has ever surfed it under such conditions.
Adam, I'd pick you up a suit if it wasn't so far. The 654s are going on sale pretty much everywhere around here, but you probably want it sooner rather than later. If it looked like today up there tomorrow I'd be leaving in a few hours. Will wait for the next gale that times itself around a weekend I can do it. Nice pictures you grabbed today.
