April 25, 2004 - Pepper Beach, Fort Pierce, FL

We were down in FL on vacation and meet up with Scotty V. The reports didn't sound to good, but this was my chance to "surf" in Florida with Scott. Around 4:00 PM we (Laura, I, and Scott) headed to Jensen Beach/Hutchinson Island to check out conditions, but it looked really poor, so we kept driving north and checking out other spots along the way. We got all the way to Fort Pierce Inlet and it was flat on the south side so we went around to the north and found a spot that was breaking about knee high (wind chop) in shallower water. There may have been a very occasional waste high wave. Scott had a 7' short board and a 7'10" fun borad both of which I used. We both caught a ton of short rides on small crappy waves but it was fun, especially only wearing a rash guard in 75 degree water and 80 degree air. There were these bait fish jumping and some jumped right over and into Scott as he was paddeling into a wave. It freaked him out. He also saw something huge jump way out in the water. That's me riding a knee high wave!