San Clemente 2008

Our summer vacation 2008 is but a faint memory. All in all we had a great time and got along very well. It's getting harder and harder every year to continue my normal level of activity without all sorts of aches and pains. I didn't throw myself into the cycling and surfing and body surfing quite as much as in the past. But, was still very busy. I didn't do as well surfing as last year I felt. I think the reason was with the swell that came through right before we arrived the bottom was uneven and at times I had an extremely difficult time with wave selection and my placement.



Our last day we went to the Trails at San Onofre State park. I may have been there once or twice back in the day. It was a wilder and less populated break. For the first half hour after we got there it was very active and I had a couple of rides. Most of the time the wave would lose power and reform further inside. Some of the biggest waves were in the 5 foot range. During the last 2 hours there was a lot of sitting around trying to catch waves that would putter out enough to make it impossible to catch.



With the bottom being messed up, a fairly deep trench had formed at San Clemente beach barely into the tideline that made it difficult and scary for the little kids to traverse. When the tide got right it was okay. But, Laney made me go out with her many times every day. Most of the time she would hang like a 50 lbs. sea anchor around my neck. I couldn't last long like this. So I got many workouts that were like someone trying to drown me for 20 minutes. Finally, the last couple of days the trench was nearly gone and Laney was mostly fine playing by herself with us just watching out for her.