August 14, 2004 - Jeness Beach, Rye Beach, NH

This has been an awesome summer for surf! Me and Laura met Scott and Alysa in Hampton for swell from tropical storm Bonnie on this sunny Sat. We met at the wall and it was big and clean with some people really ripping it up. Scott was gung-ho to go out at the wall, but I looked for a while and saw some overhead sets and some nasty close-outs that made me think twice. There were definitely some barrels. I convinced Scott to go to Jeness and we paid 10 bucks to park cause the lot was full. Jeness was definely more tame and fun looking than the wall, but the water was frickin freezing! Winds were out of the WNW at 10 mph so it was perfect! There were beautiful clean sets coming throug in the waist to occasional head high range. I got a lot of good fast powerful rides, but most were rights and a lot of them closed out at the end. Scott was getting even more rides than me. A lot of them were hard to judge and you had to catch them as they were almost peaking. No too crowded with surfers either considering the good weather and surf. My arms were jello by the end of the day. An awesome day of hurricane-like surf! Best day since the cape.