pauldavidmena
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Alvin!
Those of us of a certain age (ad you know who you are) remember Dave Seville and the Chipmunks. Hapless Dave was always able to rely on Simon and
Theodore, but for some reason Alvin was never to be found when the tape started rolling in the studio.
But I digress. The first tropical storm of the season seems to be headed toward Baja,where at the moment it's forecast to arrive as a tropical
depression on Saturday night.
[Edited on 5-30-2025 by pauldavidmena]
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BoenBaja
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“I still want a hula hoop!””
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AKgringo
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I thought this Chipmunk was going to spin itself out southwest of the cape, but it seems to have gotten legs in the past 24 hours.
Maybe it will bring a bit of rain without the punishing winds and flooding this time!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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pauldavidmena
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"Spaghetti Models" available on eebmike.com show all of the tracks pretty much converging in an area between Todos Santos and the East Cape.
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So what did Alvin deliver to the cape?
Wind....rain....surf?
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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pauldavidmena
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Speaking of Alvin, it is a high-profile submersible featured by my former employers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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lencho
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Life's tough, eh? 
"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is, by how stupid he thinks I
am."
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were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand."
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"Be kind, be patient, help others." -- Isabel Allende
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pauldavidmena
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I was one of the lucky ones. Employees over 65 were offered a generous severance to retire. I didn't think twice.
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With that swell direction, I can only dream of an East Cape break that rivals some the best surf points on the planet when it goes off.
Catch it if you can. Some years it never breaks. It is a rare gift when it does.
Let's hear if anyone was able to check it out.
My first time seeing it break was on my way back to 'Barrillitos' and stopped me dead in my tracks in the early 80's.
I could not get out there soon enough. Crowd? What crowd? A couple others eventually showed up. Sharing such perfection that day was a reward onto
itself.
The word in town was out the next day with a 'towny' crowd showing up.
The thing about this break is, it never lasts long enough. If you get a day, count yourselves as fortunate.
Over the decades during my East Cape times, there were barely a handful of times when it went off. I checked it numerous times in case the direction
might be enough to let swells get in there.
While solid Hawaiian size sw 15' to 20' waves were breaking a few miles away, it was flat!
It is more rare than Scorpion Bay going off, and anyone who knows Punta Pequena knows how particular a swell direction it takes for swells to get in
there.
Baja's rare gifts come in all kinds.
I recall sitting on the bluff and watching 1-2' perfection rolling in and listening to my short wave radio telling me the East Cape was going off big
time.
I packed up and was there the next day, and it was huge everywhere.
The East Cape was it for me for decades after. Glad I got it when I did.
Thanks for the memories Baja Sur.
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Quote: Originally posted by surfhat  | With that swell direction, I can only dream of an East Cape break that rivals some the best surf points on the planet when it goes off.
Catch it if you can. Some years it never breaks. It is a rare gift when it does.
Let's hear if anyone was able to check it out.
My first time seeing it break was on my way back to 'Barrillitos' and stopped me dead in my tracks in the early 80's.
I could not get out there soon enough. Crowd? What crowd? A couple others eventually showed up. Sharing such perfection that day was a reward onto
itself.
The word in town was out the next day with a 'towny' crowd showing up.
The thing about this break is, it never lasts long enough. If you get a day, count yourselves as fortunate.
Over the decades during my East Cape times, there were barely a handful of times when it went off. I checked it numerous times in case the direction
might be enough to let swells get in there.
While solid Hawaiian size sw 15' to 20' waves were breaking a few miles away, it was flat!
It is more rare than Scorpion Bay going off, and anyone who knows Punta Pequena knows how particular a swell direction it takes for swells to get in
there.
Baja's rare gifts come in all kinds.
I recall sitting on the bluff and watching 1-2' perfection rolling in and listening to my short wave radio telling me the East Cape was going off big
time.
I packed up and was there the next day, and it was huge everywhere.
The East Cape was it for me for decades after. Glad I got it when I did.
Thanks for the memories Baja Sur. |
I surfed waves I'll never forget at 9 palms decades ago. Magical.
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