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- From: andy@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Andy Michael USGS Guest)
- Newsgroups: alt.surfing
- Subject: Re: How's Cocoa Beach these days?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:44:46 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
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- In article <38271@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> gch@cypress.cis.ufl.edu (Greg Hartman) writes:
- >In article <1isnd6INNoe3@morrow.stanford.edu> andy@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Andy Michael USGS Guest) writes:
- >>At the end of the week we'll be spending a few days at a friends
- >>wedding in Cocoa Beach, Florida. I was wondering how the surfs been
- >>lately and if there is anywhere to rent boogie boards near there.
-
- Well we're back.
-
- >The waves have been great the past week and today for almost the whole coast
- >of Florida down to Ft. Pierce.
- >But it looks like it is dieing out. So good luck, there should be a little
- >swell left (about shoulder high i predict at least).
- >Cocoa is also infamous for mushy waves. Real fun at times, but real mushy.
- >It is a rare time that you see a wave pitch top to bottom there.
-
- Mushy is pretty much how I would describe it, but that didn't stop me from
- getting two sessions in. One of which may be *very* important.
-
- >As far as rentals goes, there is the infamous Ron Jon surf shop (open 24
- >hours a day). They have rentals, and it is worth seeing the spectical, so
- >check it out.
-
- Looked more like the Ron Jon t-shirt shop to me. The place was about a
- block from my hotel and is the size of a decent size department store.
- But all the boards were hanging from the ceiling. Nice collection but
- I didn't get the impression they sold very many of them. At least not
- compared to the many t-shirts. On the other hand we did rent two boogie
- boards from them.
-
- >>Also, what's the water temp like? I lent my dad my wetsuit for a
- >>couple of weeks so it'll have to be doable in just a bathng suit (and I
- >>am used to fairly cold water, Long Island in the summer for instance).
- >the water is somewhere in the mid 60's right now.
- >(60 degrees up in St. Augustine)
-
- Felt damn warm to me, compared to either Northern Cal right now or even
- Long Island last summer.
-
- Anyway, why would a boogie boarding session on mushy 3 to 4 foot faces
- be so important? Because I got my wife to try it with me. Previously
- she has tried body surfing but without contacts in. This time she tried
- boogie boarding with her contacts in and she had a GREAT time. Mostly
- she got whitewater rides, but it was actually pretty hard to get much else
- on these waves. On one of her first takeoffs she was fairly late and went
- through the washing machine, but she didn't care and once I told her it
- wouldn't get much worse than that in these conditions she really relaxed.
- I think she is definitely psyched to go out more. If it wasn't for all
- the friends we had around that we wanted to visit with I bet we would
- have gone out again. She actually did want to dawn patrol the next
- morning before we headed inland but then she stayed up till about 4AM
- chatting and it was almost flat anyway (we were up by 8AM anyway to
- watch the space shuttle come down). Anyway, I got me a surf buddy!
- A real nice one too. :-)
-
- Andy
-