Stiff offshores suck for paddleboarding

Last week's surf was not bad, didn't go until Wednesday thanks to the strong onshores on Sunday and Monday, which kept the surf bumpy on Tuesday.  While Richard was scoring the waves of his life in Kandui, Matt and I met at Uppers for some windswell waves.  Water was warmer than expected and skies were clear for a change, crowd was chill, just one other guy for the most part, and we got an hours worth of short lived 1 turn waves.  A few longer ones connected and Matt caught the best ones, it was nice to catch up and talk about the kids.  He's planning to go for a third anytime now, yikes!  We both agreed, while not great this kind of session is 100x better than head high and 60 guys. 
On to Thursday, decided to paddle surf since I expected it to be 2 foot and we were leaving for Paso at 9.  Got to Doheny at 5:50 and it looked awesome, low tide, 2 ft and offshore.  Turns out offshore is bad, I felt like a kite out there, my hands were freezing, and the wind blew me off of several waves.

  A few sets came through at about chest high, bet those were head high + at uppers with nobody out. The wind backed down with the sunrise and I caught some good ones, as the big sets were very sporatic and 2 ft was the norm.  Put the gopro at a new angle, not sure I like it but it shows a little more of the wave.

Got home from Paso on Sunday to south winds, fog, and mini combo windswell.  Gave strands a shot on the body board to try and get some barrel shots.  Haha, that didn't work!