in another thread, Chip asked to see some recent pics from the northern hemisphere…
these are from yesterday 12/15/06. i wasn’t able to get in the water this day, i was only
there for about 20 minutes…
this is a super secret spot in San Francisco… as i was taking these i could hardly wait
to share them with all my fellow swaylockians!!! enjoy!
“Now wait a minute…”
this is a super secret spot in San Francisco...
hahaha… yeah, you’ll never find it so don’t try. Oh yeah… ignore that big red bridge in the background.
How often does Fort Point break?
the bridge is a secret.
dont tell any body from oakland.
fort point was a prison site.
better at a lower tide
and as a mater of fact
at slack
tide that is.
out going you gotta woik hard to stay in the bay
in coming you gotta woik hard to stay on the point
aint no beach
…ambrose…
Not very often… when it does, it’s usually mushy and crappy. Locals are kinda intense there too… protecting their crappy waves. If it’s breaking good there, it’s probably better somewhere else… but the view is spectacular.
Last year surfers saved a couple sailors that sunk their boat there - http://photos.sfsurvey.com/sailH/index.asp
That’s some evil looking shorepound on the end section there…those guys are probably all hardened OB surfers though so they’re loving it. I got to check that place once, it was breaking at about 4 foot but I didn’t have a board with me. I’ve heard that guys in the lineup have almost been hit by suicide jumpers in the past, that spot’s spooky enough without having to worry about death from above!
ChrisP, thats amazing ! First I thought youd faked the pics and then a mate told me it was for real. How far from the ocean inlet / outlet /harbour headland is it? Do you think its bouncing off the far side of the bay and \ or the pylon base to make the wedge / peak effect ??Thanks.
spuuut.
Chip: is that a roadsign?
Josh: Ambrose and Kendall are right on.
Acolyte of Trim: i was there about a year after 9/11. i didn’t even realize it but somebody jumped from the bridge. all of a sudden a coastguard boat pulled up and a helicopter came in under the bridge. i spoke with the marines who had been stationed there since 9/11 and they said that they had seen 7 people jump since they had been there.
Spuuut: the bridge is at the mouth of the bay. these shots are all of the south end of the bridge so, the ocean is maybe a couple hundred yards to the left. shot 4 is of part of the old fort. beyond that is ocean. photo 5 you can see across
to the marin headlands. this spot is definitely weird, you have waves breaking at 90 degrees to eachother. first you have
a wave or set that comes in from open ocean and breaks from around the corner right under the bridge. this first wave or set comes in parrallel to the bridge. then, a few minutes later, a wave breaks perpendicular to that one and the bridge… if that makes any sense… yah it seems like the swell is bouncing either off the shore on the other side or off the pylon.
photo 10: this guy was getting all the best rides. don’t let it fool you, on this day, the outside
was just a peak that mushed out instantly after the drop (like it usually does). the guy in photos 10, 24, 28, and 29 was cutting way right after the main drop and riding the soup to the inside racetrack/section where he would get a few turns in before pulling out to avoid the shore pound. maybe one in 10 waves, the shorebreak would line up right and just be a screamer for about 100 yards (last photo shows the end of this). i’ve had some fun sessions trying to race the shorebreak but got a few dings for doing it… for me the best part about surfing fort point is the location and the view. photo 11 is looking back into the bay. you can see (from left to right) emeryville, oakland, and alcatraz. shots 22 and 23 are of alcatraz with oakland in the backround. off to the right in shot 30 is where home is for me.
i spoke with the marines who had been stationed there since 9/11 and they said that they had seen 7 people jump since they had been there.
I think there have been around 1.200 jumpers since they opened the bridge in 1937. Not all of them die… but most do. That doesn’t include the 11 workers who fell to their deaths during construction. The Golden Gate Bridge is an awsome structure. I’ve been in the bay area for over twenty years now… I’ve spent a bunch of those years commuting over the bridge… I’ve lived in the city and worked in Marin… I’ve lived in Marin and worked in the city… now I live in the city and my son goes to high school in Marin (my daughter’s at UC Santa Cruz). Every time I drive over the bridge, I realize how lucky I am to live here.
Northern Hemisphere waves??? Heres a pic of my favourite break… As a goofy I’m in Nirvana!!!
North Devon - Great Britannia - Thanks to MSW for the photos!
© Magicseaweed 2006
Hi Chris,
Nice set of pics you got there. With the way its been cold here these last few days, how cold was the water?
Speaking of GG suicides, has anyone seen this movie?
(MAY CONTAIN DISTURBING SUBJECT MATTER.)
-Rio