bigscoop
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- Jun 4, 2010
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- Older blue Excal with full mods, Equinox 800.
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Have been hunting a couple of troughs lately, meager pickings but hitting enough to keep things interesting. A bit of a pain because of the currents and swells but also relaxing at the same time, if that makes any sense. Yesterday I stepped into the one of those troughs and started working it back and forth, just like always, about chest deep as usual. And then suddenly, there was no bottom! In fact, my feet never hit bottom after I went under, that hole just went straight down. After a swell helped me to escape the predicament curiosity caused me to checkout the actual size of the hole, which wasn't there prior to the last tide change. The hole was about 50 feet long and maybe 30 feet across, a large hole that was created during a single tide change. I have no idea how deep it was, maybe 8 feet or so. I should have seen it coming but I was already comfortable in that trough, let my guard down and was allowing my mind and eyes to wonder about other things.
Now I was never in any real danger on this day, shallow water being close at hand at all four sides of me, but the point I'm making is that "a whole lot of sand" got moved with just a single tide change and it is something you encounter quite often when hunting the troughs over here, especially when coming out of the monthly negative cycle or when a strong southeast or northeast wind has been driving water into the beach for day or more, both of which we had just experienced. Just a word of caution to those who enter these waters, "never let your guard down" as things can change in heartbeat.
Now I was never in any real danger on this day, shallow water being close at hand at all four sides of me, but the point I'm making is that "a whole lot of sand" got moved with just a single tide change and it is something you encounter quite often when hunting the troughs over here, especially when coming out of the monthly negative cycle or when a strong southeast or northeast wind has been driving water into the beach for day or more, both of which we had just experienced. Just a word of caution to those who enter these waters, "never let your guard down" as things can change in heartbeat.
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