Sunday, July 21, 2013

Sunday's South Swell...

Surf at SMS Tower #28 just past 12 noon...

Who Knew?!...  The South Swell continued to generate some larger than normal surf along our south facing Central Section beaches today, Sunday, July 21, 2013.  We took a walk, off duty, from SMS Tower #28 to just south of the Venice Pier and got some nice shots of the surf and some of our on duty lifeguards and even got a cool shot of OL Pedro Caldas on a workout catching a nice wave while body surfing out front of his tower and just south of the Venice Pier!  Nice left, Pedro!  Many Thanks to OLS Tito Bourget for the i.d. on this body surfing OL!

OL Justin Kirby at SMS #28 using his foot bucket and watching the water at the same time...
Black Ball Flag Unfurled...
Which of these on duty OL's is on a workout?...
Gaucho Water Polo Great and LACo OL, Elle Quane, workin' Westminster along Venice North!
A set wave at Westminster in Venice...
And another...
How about a close up for some perspective of the size of some of these set waves...
Ave-18 closed to swimmers due to designated surf area and the lateral current running toward the breakwater...

Capt. Danny Douglas at the whell and OL George Akopyan



OL Dave Clarke on duty!...

Venice Pier: In The Fisheye...
OL Pedro Caldas, on a swim workout & body surfing just to the south of the Venice Pier: long view...


Close up, OL Pedro Caldas, going left
At this point we made a flip turn and headed back toward Venice Lifeguard HQ...
Set wave at Ave-26...
OL Dave Clarke making preventions on the south side of the jetty at Ave-23...
Baywatch crew on patrol heading toward the Avenues...

Orchestra section...
Set waves continuing to break nicely north of the Venice Pier...
Back to Ave-23... a Recurrent's job is never easy on a south swell with a strong lateral current...
Venice Ave-26 local... taking a break from the swell...
 That's it!...

10-4

Until next time.....


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