K55BAJA

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Baja bound since 1935!

It is a small world after all. I told my pops you 'spied' him.

No rockets of late but we been keeping our heads down just in case. My dad's father took him down fishing to Ensenada frequently starting when he was ten years old. As soon as he could drive he and his buddies would head down every chance they could for surf,diving,fishing or whatever. When my parents got married in 1949 they spent first night of honeymoon at the Hussong's Cabanas just south of where Hotel Coral is now. Dad converted a Metro step van into a camper and my older siblings and I grew up camping at San Onofre,Doheny and Baja then my parents got a place at K55 in 1960 when I was two and the rest is history,so far.

Doheny!

El Nino 90-91 did not help matters. The beach break was severely altered starting with El Nino 1983. Seasonally the currents would take the sand off the beach starting in early fall and deposit them just offshore then by Memorial Day it would all return. In Jan-Feb '83 we had three huge storms back to back to back that caused a portion of the cliffs at north end of camp to fall in along with 8-9 houses. Also all the sand that was offshore was sent 'downstream' and the beach at La Fonda/La Mision was the benefactor partly. The result was that the beach break became less consistent and only worked with a BIG south or a HUGE west, some of both I was lucky to enjoy. In the mean time there has always been a nice right hand point break and a middle reef break. It has only been in the last 5-6 years that the sand has returned in quantities sufficient to allow for some nice peaks with the right swell at the beach break. Putting in the days is correcto, I have had the good fortune over these last four decades to get my share. Growing up my family would head down the day after school was out and come home the day after Labor Day and we spent virtually every holiday down there as well. I grew up surfing with my dad and mom and spent MANY a day surfing the place all by myself wondering how my buddies back at the HB pier were fairing with the crowds and wishing they were around to share the stoke. The place will always be special even without surf and when the swell and tide line up it is hard to beat. I have been very fortunate all these years.

Dude! K55 B C S

it's great living in my own little world, too!

reality bites!

i first laid eyes on the Campo back in 1978-9 with Jerry and Marty driving and pushing me into waves i had no reason to be digging for. i was the kid who had gas money and the boys knew where we could find an empty wave and a torta, esta bien?

to be in 9th grade again and know what i didn't know then.............

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Originally posted by woody with a view i first laid eyes on the Campo back in 1978-9 with Jerry and Marty driving and pushing me into waves i had no reason to be digging for. i was the kid who had gas money and the boys knew where we could find an empty wave and a torta, esta bien? to be in 9th grade again and know what i didn't know then.............

wise man once said 'rich or poor its good to have money'!
Did you camp on the bluff? 9th grade I thought I already knew it all.............

no. jimmy vaughn's dad (juez susio) was a superior court judge who had a house on the north side of the la mision river under the mushroom water tower. we'd leave after work/school on friday (told mom i'd spend the night at Skeeter's and go downstream Sunset Cliffs and not be home until late Saturday) back when this kind of thing was okay!

there are a few girls who still get wet looking at the tower i made them climb and look out over the coast, ditching school and imbibing, inhaling..... but i digress!

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Originally posted by woody with a view no. jimmy vaughn's dad (juez susio) was a superior court judge who had a house on the north side of the la mision river under the mushroom water tower. we'd leave after work/school on friday (told mom i'd spend the night at Skeeter's and go downstream Sunset Cliffs and not be home until late Saturday) back when this kind of thing was okay! there are a few girls who still get wet looking at the tower i made them climb and look out over the coast, ditching school and imbibing, inhaling..... but i digress!

Good times for sure!

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Originally posted by ridge Goofy foot huh; I bet you remember the lefts off the rock... ;^D And who could forget Anacleto.

Anacleto riding his horse thru camp sidearm in the holster with a buzz on barely staying upright in the saddle what a sight. We would often visit the campers on the bluff and 'warn' them not to mess with the camp 'host' who would be coming to collect his 'fees' on horseback.

Regular foot earned my backside stripes on that left. When I was 17 Easter weekend BIG south I almost drowned when a double overhead wave lip crashed square on my head squashed me onto my board after my back foot slid off the end of the board doing the splits tore my left hamstring sucked me over the falls drug me across the bottom snapped my leash and let me up just in time for the next wave to smash me down again. I drug myself up on the shore way up by the old 'pier' and puked my guts out from all the water I sucked down and from being scared s*^tless. To this day my hamstring gives me problems if I overextend. Lesson learned - mother nature bats last and it's stupid to surf alone when it's big, or anytime for that matter.

see, i thought you were gonna puke everytime you craned looking back at the day (in your mind's eye) as you told "that" story on your way to the casita!

i know i woulda..... part of the reason i go.

Glory daze!

sorta like this, sorta.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vQpW9XRiyM