The waves have been pretty small for the most part with the exception of a a few days of chest to head high sets.
Whenever we have time it is nice for us to take a quick trip down to the Sunset Cliffs to check out the sunset while we let the wild animal run around. The Sunset Cliffs is a state park that is a couple of mile from our house. It extends for a few mile stretch south of Ocean Beach and dead ends into the Point Loma Nazarene University. Lyndsey likes to run from our house to the end of the road which is around a 5 mile trek there and back. The park has a number of beaches and reef’s to hang out at or explore. When the tide is super low, which happens a couple of days a month, we like to explore the beaches with Judah. You can walk for miles down the beach until you start to get nervous about being stranded on a beach if the tide decides to turn and come up to fast.
When the North West swells come in a few weeks the cliffs will start to light up with some fun waves. The set up at the Sunset Cliff’s is ideal for surfing. The point blocks allot of the wind, and the kelp bed about a 1/2 mile off the beach keeps down the wind chop. This leaves the conditions glassy, which is ideal for surfing, while many of the other spots are blown out. The Sunset Cliff’s got its name for the fact that this is where the cliffs dump into the sea. There a few scattered beaches but for the most part it is just cliff and reef. This makes getting in and out of the water a little tricky with options changing with the tides. Entry into some some of waves consists of jumping off of a cliff into the water. This can get a little harry if you do not know what you are doing. Timing and wave knowledge can make it a fun easy entry, lack there of can get a little messy. Getting in is the easy part, getting out is a whole another monster. I’ve had to paddle 1/2 mile up or down the beach at times to find a place to get out. Needless to say many of the spots are not for beginners which assists with crowd control on big days.
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