MP rigs Saturday (8th)?? Moved to another venue..

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MP rigs Saturday (8th)?? Moved to another venue..

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I'll be there around 7am if anyone wishes to join..
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Be careful! Good luck!
I Would but I don't like the storms down there. Too finicky with lightning and rain. I got caught under the big rig with a water spout formed 1/4 mile away. I was pedaling in place for a good 15 minutes trying to fight the wind, waves and rain still coming through holy platform. Put in call to coast guard just in case but called them back when the spout dissipated 1/8 mile away.
I always carry my radio especially alone.
I gonna wait for the week of the 17th - 20th. Magic Seaweed has breakers at 1' or less on the 18th.
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kickingback wrote:Be careful! Good luck!
I Would but I don't like the storms down there. Too finicky with lightning and rain. I got caught under the big rig with a water spout formed 1/4 mile away. I was pedaling in place for a good 15 minutes trying to fight the wind, waves and rain still coming through holy platform. Put in call to coast guard just in case but called them back when the spout dissipated 1/8 mile away.
I always carry my radio especially alone.
I gonna wait for the week of the 17th - 20th. Magic Seaweed has breakers at 1' or less on the 18th.
I'm headed back to the normal grind Sunday morning and was hoping for one more shot at the rigs while I'm here. If it happens, it happens. If it don't, it don't. What's another years wait anyways???
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Whaterspouts at July the 7 th?
I was wondering how a bunch of fellow kayakers past the breakers managed this situation..
I made a few shots of spouts from beach and it did not look good..
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Yep, those damn things are intimidating for sure and even more so when you are on the water next to a big rig of metal in a flimsy breakable kayak being thrown around in the wind and waves waiting to hit the rig at anytime unless you physically push yourself to stay protected.
It was hairy! It did not call for thunder storms and the winds were forecasted low but did call for a bit of rain. It didn't say anything about water spouts. :lol:
Those things form easily down there offshore it seems to me now as others have experienced it.
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I am pretty sure if get caught by this thing in kayak it would have blown away my glasses and the trip would be ruined.. :D
On a serious side, there were two of them, the first one died pretty close to a rig, if it did not, I think the coast guard would have been busy ...
Forecast was good for that day it was perfectly nice weather after 12 pm.
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MP is not in the cards for me anymore.
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