{"id":366,"date":"2009-08-03T11:39:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T18:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=366"},"modified":"2010-11-16T22:42:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T05:42:17","slug":"back-in-pacifica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2009\/08\/back-in-pacifica\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Pacifica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"367\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2009\/08\/back-in-pacifica\/p8030178\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030178.JPG?fit=3264%2C2448&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;u850SW,S850SW&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1249321594&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;20.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jamie\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030178.JPG?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030178.JPG?fit=525%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030178-1024x768.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" alt=\"Jamie\" title=\"Jamie\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030178.JPG?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030178.JPG?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030178.JPG?w=1575 1575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Conditions:<\/strong> 1-3ft. Glassy, peaky lines with soft\/mushy corners looking semi-workable to the beach. <\/p>\n<p>The mellow little waves followed me home!<\/p>\n<p>Sure it looked pretty flat out there, but I got in some nice long rides on little waves. Jamie and I found a nice spot that, with a LOT of patience, set us up for a few 2-3 ft waves with both lefts and rights. High tide and an unwillingness to let go of the wave meant most of the rides ended abruptly at the beach. Jamie got a few rolling dismounts into the sand. I didn&#8217;t get anything that graceful.<\/p>\n<p>El Ni\u00c3\u00b1o has been forcing Anchovies and Sea Lions up north making the bay area waters extremely active. We had dive bombing pelicans and probably about a dozen or so sea lions around us. It&#8217;s a little spooky! Unfriendly fin sightings have been up in Ocean Beach and with Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, everyone&#8217;s a bit jumpy.<\/p>\n<p>I snapped this pic of a sea lion near my board:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"368\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2009\/08\/back-in-pacifica\/p8030184\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030184.JPG?fit=2771%2C2078&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2771,2078\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;u850SW,S850SW&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1249323990&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;20.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MRAAAaaaaah\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030184.JPG?fit=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030184.JPG?fit=525%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030184-1023x767.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" alt=\"MRAAAaaaaah\" title=\"MRAAAaaaaah\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030184.JPG?resize=1023%2C767&amp;ssl=1 1023w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030184.JPG?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P8030184.JPG?w=1575 1575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not very friendly looking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conditions: 1-3ft. Glassy, peaky lines with soft\/mushy corners looking semi-workable to the beach. The mellow little waves followed me home! Sure it looked pretty flat out there, but I got in some nice long rides on little waves. Jamie and I found a nice spot that, with a LOT of patience, set us up for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2009\/08\/back-in-pacifica\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back in Pacifica&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,58,6,22],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YKrJ-5U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}