Yoga

I finally did my first yoga class in over a month. So nice. I did the "swinging bow" for the first time. I felt like a kid as the instructor swung me.

Pismo Beach is a neat town. The drive was awesome - beautiful rolling hills and it only took us two hours on the return trip. Here's something funny. The bank directly from where Hanna works got robbed the day before we were there. Guess what the name of the bank is - Rabobank. Seriously. Not a joke.

It might get up to 70 degrees today - yeh!
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Sy, Hannah and Patty at their new place in Pismo Beach on Christmas eve. Oh yeah..and Rico!

Rico's morning report

Saturday, 12-27-08

7am

waist to head high plus, glass to slight offshores

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

...to Tampa Ave.

Christmas day

These are my other two nieces - Victoria and Isabella from Houston. Bella is a little scared of Santa. Miss you!

We had a nice evening with Sy and Hanna. They live in a cool little place on Shell Beach. We'll have a picture later.

Spike and I gave eachother gifts from our favorite store - Patagonia. It's right on the edge of downtown , very close to where we live in Ventura. It's raining today so maybe we'll go to the movies and hang with Sy/Hanna.

Have a great day!

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Pismo Beach Surf Forecast

New Beach same ocean bigger waves.

Hazard Canyon..about 20 miles north of Pismo Beach Pier.

Extremely heavy and unforgiving reef barrel replete with boils, ledges and wicked currents with a unfriendly local crew. The Canyon can be the area's best break in mid winter with a overhead to double overhead NW swell. Breaks in front of a large rock outcropping. Sound inviting?

Surf: NW swell 5 to 8ft to double overhead at select reefs

water temp: 54

high today: 56 with heavy rain at times.

Gee, Can't wait for my buddy Sy to pick me up to share a few waves and spread the Christmas cheer with new found friends! Maybe some pics later today.

On a lighter note with some real Holiday cheer, Here is Santa with one of my favorite girls - Aeriana - our niece from Houston. r/s

Rico's morning report

Actually it's too early and still dark out but the picture of Rico checking out the surf is too good to pass up. ...neither is this one of Patty happily working her way to booking another charter. We are leaving for Pismo Beach today and spending Christmas with our friends Sy and Hannah who are from Puerto Rico, Oregon, Indiatlantic Florida , New Zealand and now Pismo Beach, California.

Kiosk

This is the kiosk where the camp hosts work - just steps from our motor home. There's three camp hosts, Spike being one and I'm a back up. It's a big responsibility - handling money, signing people up for overnight and day parking, etc. A lot of paperwork for the state.

Saw a good movie today - "Seven Pounds" with Will Smith. Really good - it gets you at the end.

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Here are the pics from Saturday's (yesterday)7am report taken from the main salon of our RV. I call our rig "STEAMBOAT LANDING" in honor of our dear friend Howard "Liver Eatin" Kelly"

Surf report/sat. 6:40am

I gotta tell you, opening the blinds and being able to watch 4 guys surfing shoulder high waves as I write this is a hoot. Just saw one of them take off and it was head high. Pics later!

Evening session surf report/Friday, 12-19

Around 3 pm a longboarder paddled out in 2ft glass. Rico and I were sanding an exopy patch repairing a foot long hole I put in the port side of the RV with curious Nugget watching us from the window. All the while I kept watching this guy catching little peaks. Around 4pm two more guys were in the line up and the peaks were a foot bigger on take off and were beginning to line up in fast little 2 ft walls on the inside. I compare any small waves to my favorite spot. A break known as STEPS in Puerto Rico. If I find myself saying " Hey, that looks like Steps" I paddle out. So...Caught my first waves since arriving here in Ventura and was stoked as the waves were in fact just like STEPS down to the setting sun back lighting the top half of the wave. That O' Neil wetsuit with the "Firewall" inner layer kept me dry. r/s