Steve from Grimsby had some nice ones as the waves began to build before sunset.

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Late this afternoon the waves built up for Chris Furminger. He was on it again and left in a happy hurry.

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Charlie and his dog Max were walking on the beach when I arrived on the beach. The surf was starting to show some size.


Charlie is riding into a closing out section but having a fine end of summer time in Lake Erie.


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Perhaps some of the riders will identify themselves to our audience who is watching what Lake Erie delivered today at Area 51. Many Canadian Great Lakes surfers had more than a hand full of rides like this.


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Another fun ride in 70 degree Lake Erie on 11 Sept. 2007 in Ontario, Canada.


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Here's another fun ride that was taken late this afternoon in wild Lake Erie. The waves have come back and they were getting bigger at dark.


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Whooooooooooooooooo! It kept getting bigger.


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Imagine those over twenty foot onshore waves on the Upper Michigan peninsula when the wind shifts offshore or quits? I sat across the road, along the beach there, a couple of years ago on a bar stool, below colored, shot gun shell, Christmas lights listening to those waves building in the night. The next day the ice came in and cut off the surfing near shore.

This morning the waves must be shaking the shores of Michigan and the boat captains on Superior are having a rough go of it coming or going into Seiox Sainte Marie. It's mimicing a wicked and long gone Edwin Fitz night.

The camera works very well. There is much more to learn using this digital camera. My wife just helped me download a free photo editing program and fell immediately off to sleep before I got to understand how to transfer these edited images. What you are seeing here is unedited and straight off the camera. It's been a while since I used it. I forgot the camera had a view finder and took these shots looking through the peep hole. The zoom works great.

Thank You again to my Great Lakes surfing buddies for your generosity of the gift of this excellent digital camera. Thank You Origin. My health is improving. At least I can surf again. This fella caught some rides from outside that came my way but the side drift was something else. The sun was glaring bright around four and some of the chop was brutal down near the dune. I have witnesses that I caught some good ones. Thanks for cheering me up last November 2006 when I was up against the ropes and taking a life beating. That smile you put on my face back then is still there right after this day of surfing and surf photography.


Next time I will have undrained back up of batteries. The camera shut down because the batteries in the camera tapped out when I began to shoot. Otherwise I would have had many more pics. I hadn't planned on taking photographs today but I carried the camera down to the beach and placed it high in the shore wall rocks. It was around sunset when I took these images I have posted here.

It doesn't get much better than this. It helped make me forget all the sadness I was carrying around this afternoon. To surfing!


Thank You brothers.

Magilla,
Currently it's 5:30am, Wed am. Nice shots by the way from yesterday.

Winds are WNW up there and the buoy has come down a notch at 7.9ft, 7 secs.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=45142

But! It's probably cleaner this morning with that WNW component in the wind. So anybody reading this that can, get on it ASAP.

Happy Surfing!

Ryan

Those are some great shots.
I knew someone must have been getting some waves down there, too bad family commitments have been keeping us grounded until the weekends. Looks like the next few days are promising as well. Hopefully my son and I can make the trip to the warm waters of Erie on Saturday.

Thanks for posting, these shots are great. The first shot disproves that article in the Montreal Gazette (that Quebec is the only province where a Canadian can surf in the summer with trunks.)

Not to mention the baseball cap.

Gary the water here is warm but the air has been cooler and colder on the gusty days. Make sure you bring a wettie for your son.

Adam I missed that point you made. I skimmed the article. Not to worry though the newspapers make mistakes every day. Many papers run a corrections section in the front section of their papers. The usual surf reporting is "surf's up dude" cliche. We have seen a few excellent written articles but most of the press writers are subject to the whim of their non surfing editors. The worst surfing article photographs about the Great Lakes show either a surfer walking on the beach or somebody riding the shore break at the waters edge. Confucious said, "a picture tells a thousand words." Laozi said, "be like water not like the rock." I can't remember who wrote the lyric to the song, "philosophy is a walk on slippey rocks." But I heard that crossing the Peace Bridge today.


Who cares what the Quebec or California or TimBitToo papers say about the Great Lakes. Let the pictures do the talking. We get bigger and better waves than Quebec. I'm more tired from paddling over the last two days than somebody riding a stationary wave in a river. Somebody elsewhere is more tired than me after paddling into overhead and tropical glass. Surfing that standing wave is still a cool looking experience that I want to try. It won't replace what we had down here on Erie for the last days. Either way it's water the element we should become more one with. I'm going to surf that Montreal wave the next time I first my in-laws. Those Quebec standing waves must be real warm in January.




Bobby Mcferrin said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjnvSQuv-H4


Here's to the Great Lakes bubba wave. The biggest bubba wave in the Great Lakes was over 22 feet high, onshore, yesterday in Kitchegummybear Lake, a.k.a. Superior. The Budda wave is his buddy. All waves are relevant that are ridden.

Thanks fellows for this super gift!

Lots of red tape kept me off the dawn riding. Garret and another guy had the breakfast of champion waves this a.m. The rest of us scored diminishing heights of fun rides as the day progressed. What a blast. Two days in a row and summer isn't over yet.

The surf this summer has been like the rain this summer. We are coming out of a long draught. Too late for the corn. It's all brittle and brown and under grown. The farmers suffered more that the surfers. I think Willie Nelson sang that.


Thanks for the info. I was on it.