Weekend Update

More Rincon Season Opener Coverage

RSB reader Joaquin Mallman recently began shooting from the water, having acquired one of those slick SPL housings for his camera.  Be sure to check out his cool online slideshow by clicking on the following link.  Requires flash player to view the show. 

Rincon Season-Opener Slide Show


From my own batch of pics, here are a coupla more images.  I'm not sure of the identity of this surfer, but he was absolutely shredding thursday afternoon...



Crowds are always a problem at the point -- particularly at the beginning of the season, following a long and difficult surf hiatus resulting from the lack of swell activity.  Pictured below, a pair of surfers go down hard and get tangled up in each other's leashes in the aftermath...



Stand Up Paddleboarders (Sups) are becoming an increasingly more common sight in the lineup at Rincon. 

I watched this paddleboarder pick off set wave after set wave thanks to the wave-catching advantage afforded by minimal drag/resistance...




Maverick's Season Opener Happened This Week Too!

A sign of good things to come?

As reported on Towsurfer.com, this week's swell, in addition to kicking off the local season, opened up the season at the Northern California Big-Wave Mecca Maverick's...

Be sure to check out the online slideshow hosted on Mavsurfer.com located here:
www.mavsurfer.com

 

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