Today was my seventh time to surf at Yoshida – not bad considering that I was quite busy with work during the first part of the official beach season. (FYI, the official season is from the last weekend of June until the last weekend of August).
Typhoon 11 has completely passed by Shizuoka now, so I figured that it would be just a regular day at the surf office today….
I was right. There were about 10 cars in the parking lot – Ubon vacation is over so just the regular crew of surfers was there. As far as conditions, they were a little better than last Thursday – no wind, nicely shaped but a little undersized waves.
This is what I saw at 6:30:
A longboarder catching a nice a small, but nice wave.
I snapped a couple more pictures as well:
No crowds to worry about today. During the first 45 minutes or so, I was able to catch plenty of small waves. However, at around 7:30 or so, the wind began to pick up and the quality of the waves worsened. We continued to surf with little reward for our efforts. At around 9:00, we called it a day. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for tomorrow!
