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…
