Wookie Maiden Voyage                           page 2 of 6

The day after Christmas carloads of people arrived from San Diego. This particular group was like a pitstop crew: they drove over the hill and knew exactly where they were going to camp, unloaded and rapidly shuffled equipment around, and literally 15 minutes after turning off their engines their camp was complete, shade structures and all, and they were suiting up for a surf.

The view of the wave from their campsite.

And here's my special series of pictures of Sam getting caught inside. Here we have Sam doing his patented "dive off the nose of the board to get deeper" maneuver:

Whoops, there he goes again, same move diffent wave:

And here we have the amusing spectacle of Sam trying to hitch a sledride from a giant mountain of whitewater. Moments after this picture Sam was getting tossed around end over end.

One of the San Diegans paddled out with a longboard which quickly became two shortboards...

Sam heading back to camp...

... and noticing that cheap cold stew tastes so much better after taking a few sets on the head.