... in Satellite, and after a 20 min exhausting paddle battle,
they both found the outside.




They had walked north about 2 blocks before entering the water.

It was a mess on the outside...
...and on the inside.











But they had made it out.

It wasn't the biggest wave ...
... but it was a WAVE.























... and they came in.
Dealing with the inside shorebreak was bad enough...









And if the paddle-battle getting out along with dealing with the inside wasn't enough, ...
... they still had a 4' wall of sand to climb over.






They had made it out, were safe and happy....
....and that in itself was the victory.





And Fish's honest quote...
"Now I know why nobody else was out"







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Puerto Rico 11 - 24 - 2013

Yewwwww!  That's what I'm talkin bout... 

edit: wrong board though, no?

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Edited: 11/28/2015 at 09:08 AM by CERTON

That was a fun paddle out, and incredibly large on the outside. Ill see you this evening same spot different time.

I will have the same board....yes it was the right board to take out......we made it where no others were.

At least you burned some turkey off !

You guys are brave, that's for sure. Is the water that cool?

Nope the water was plenty warm (73).....I forgot my baggies.....Go surf.

I salute you both. Especially since you appear to be a mature looking surfer (I'm 52, sooooo). Makes me feel better when I see the older dudes still hanging.

I watched a couple of younger dudes (late teens, early twenties?) try to get out at Ocean Ave yesterday around 11 a.m.. They got pounded, came in to ride the shore break and got pounded again. Dude wiped out at the shoreline, could have been a bone breaker. Quote of the week, "Now I know why nobody else is out."

Edited: 11/28/2015 at 06:38 PM by Noworries

The one guy trying to surf at Vero's South Beach around noon fled the water with jellyfish sting.

Getting out was no problem  because the usual rip current was operating efficiently, but catchable waves.... not much.  

I'm out of commission with what looks like a permanent limit on right shoulder movement.  

I saw the one gentleman wayy outside and decided that I had to atleast give it a shot. Paddled out on a six footer and got extremely lucky making it out faster than I imagined. Waves were big and dumpy.  After one, smartly paddled back in.  

 

On a side note, I am still shocked at the erosion.

Surfed second light by myself all weekend was super fun, a little burger-ish but some decent sections. Coco nutz was really sick sunday morning the inside was suprisingly hollow but once the tide backed out too much the outside got fun. suprisingly drift was not that bad

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I ran into this Matt Lusk photo from the old Cape Hatteras Lighthouse jetty groin.  

Edited: 12/01/2015 at 07:24 AM by ww

I tried to follow brett barley out one day last year with a north to south drift. He paddled out on the north side of the groin, got out, and cut through the little section at the end....

I was almost to the key hole and took two waves on the head each one I thought was going to push me into the groin and shred me to bits, but made it through between waves......last time I will try that when its big!

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I troll 2L.com to be a better person in real life

I've only looked around the area briefly.  Did have the groin, with modest waves, to myself for a little bit.  Like this, but no one around:

That led to checking videos and discovering Matt Lusk via one of them by Jeffrey O'Neill (help from ncsurf):

And it turns out that Daniel Pullen and Brett Barley himself are swimmers, too.  Amazing ones.

Edited: 12/01/2015 at 04:22 PM by ww