When is simply standing up better than getting tubed?

 

When it's your kid doing the standing.

Lighthouse Beach

This is the right off the north rocks at Lighthouse Beach.  It's a fickle break, and rights are in high demand here.  So if I have a chance to surf this one working at all, I usually do.  90% of the days that it works are in September and October.  It must have something to do with the nature of the swell and/or the way the sand is piled in after Monsoon season.  As best as I can tell, it likes a medium size swell with a big period - something like 2.5 ft. at 18 sec.  This day was 3 @ 12.

You have to enjoy bendy, mutant, refracting waves to appreciate this place.  Even then it will be a love/hate sort of thing.  The peak moves around like a whack-a-mole and there's always a rip running along the rocks which makes it impossible to stay in one place.  It's the sort of break where you see a lot of good ones and catch a few. 

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