May 14th – Typhoon No. 2

Like usual, the forecast was for rain.  When I rolled out of bed at 5:30 am, it was raining.  It don’t look like it was raining too hard so I got ready.  When I went outside, it was raining hard enough that I got an umbrella and was having second thoughts about going.  These thoughts quickly passed – I knew that this was my chance to catch the end of a passing typhoon, so I was certainly going.

An hour later, I was in the parking lot at my unofficial new local point, Kashima.  Here’s what I saw:

You can’t really tell from the pictures, but the waves were quite big.  I guess that it was overhead or maybe even bigger.  Not too many people were in the water, but I thought I would go out for a paddle and try to catch a wave or two.  My friend hadn’t shown up yet, but I was going out anyways.

I had my wetsuit half-way on when my friend arrived.  He suggested that we try a different point just down the road…

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