May 30, 2015 - The Wall, Hampton Beach, NH

First time out this year and end of a spring heat wave.  There has been little surf this spring and not much rain with lots of warm weather.  Just me and the kids went up, so this was an experiment.  Air was hot, but the water was still frigid and I could have used booties but didn't.  The wind was much higher than predicted at about 20 mph S/SW, which made it really tough to paddle into waves.  Tide was going out which worked out well.  Waves were about knee-thigh.  Also had to keep paddling south to maintain position.  I only caught one wave, which was unfortunate.  It think it actually picked up a bit around the time we left, but the wind still killed it.  I had to eagle eye the kids from the ocean to make sure they were OK, but they did well playing in the sand.  All in all it was nice to get back to the ocean on a beautiful day.