chilly weekend.

This past week flew by pretty quickly. It was homecoming week at our school, so a bunch of activities and shortened periods helped, i'm sure. I helped supervise a bonfire on the beach as part of the events they were having each night. It was pretty funny because noone could get the thing started. It was this massive pile of pallets. Probably the biggest bonfire i've been to. Once this dude got it going, it was pretty ridiculous. Cool watching the fire with the sunset over the ocean as the background.

It also got pretty cold out here this weekend. It's usually been in the 60s for the past couple weeks, but this cold spell rolled in and drops the temps into the lower 40s at night. I'll have to spark up this wood burning stove here soon if this continues.

Friday went by super quick because of a pep assembly, and the normal early release schedule. Chris Jacobson stopped by to hang out and chat for a minute. His hand is out of the cast, and he'll be back to normal in another couple weeks. Probably no bungee boarding for a minute, haha, but it'll be rad to surf with Chris again.
After the staff meeting i headed to North Head to walk around and take some pictures till Michael got off work at 4:30. We headed to Seaview approach and went out for a little bit, but it was pretty much mush, and no getting to the outside.

Saturday Travis and i took a trip down to Indian Head in Ecola State Park in Oregon. I forgot to take some pictures, but the scenery was amazing. There was a "shoulder", kind of like a half cove that the swells formed off of. The waves were super smooth and mellow for the most part. I had some difficulty adjusting to the new board, but once i started getting the hang of it, it was a blast to maneuver it around. It wasn't quite as crowded as Short Sands that day Nick and i went down, but then again, the weather is getting colder as the days pass.

Today, i slept in till around ten. Hung out around the house and graded some papers. Learned that Michael's car had broken down and he had the day off work because of it. We decided to check out Seaview in the afternoon.
So i guess the next couple days are the lowest the tides been/going to be for another 6 months or so? It was weird seeing it out so far, we got in the water and waded out till we were about chest deep, then hit a sandbar and kept walking till we got in the water again. My car was so far away, definitely not what we're used to. Michael and i paddled and tried to work our way to the outside where the waves were breaking in a line and looked super fun. However, the harder and more exhausted we got from paddling, it seemed like we were not making any progress at all. We kind of gave up for a minute and just sat around on our boards. We decided to give it one more shot. We made it past the breaks, but then the ocean turned into a lake with no swells in sight. Every once in awhile a real good set would roll in. Out of nowhere i started getting real nautious. I think maybe the combination of the ocean just being real weird and tossing us around, with how far we were out, made me sick. I decided to bail and paddle towards shore. Not the most productive day, but it was fun to get out nonetheless.

Here's a few photos i took at North Head with my phone and a Holga filter application. I have some pictures on my SLR too, but haven't looked at them yet.