Backwash Waves Break Against Restaurant in Laguna Beach

Oh my gosh. No. Yeah, we are headed to Wedge, and the swell's actually pretty large today. A little bit of a surprise. Woke up and Laguna was like solid six-foot sets coming in, and Wedge is definitely going to be pretty pumping. Just incredible conditions, pretty much for the whole month of October. Almost 80 degrees out, and glassy as can be, so yeah, I'll make our rounds back, show you guys the crack. back to the crack back to the crack check out the tarping and then hit our favorite place we're gonna do a a cool like comparison between a drone shot that we got um probably a couple winters ago in the middle of winter when the beach was super wide and show what it looks like now comparison so little Paul Carey featherweight dude that guy he's like literally got bird bones it's going combo that's Paul on his new pro model he just got his first ever pro model recording skimboard and he went pro this last month pretty cool he's looking pro that combo is legit Skim boardings newest professional everyone Thank you Going surfing That qualifies a trick down The launch sequence is a crate. Yeah, I did not think you were coming out of that That board's sick, this board it worked really good in that barrel, paddles like a champ too Yeah, I'm done. I'm calling it quits. You're done? Going out on that? Oh yeah, I'm not going to do better than that. No chance. It was a lot of people out here. It's kind of turned into a completely different wave, and I think the word is out. I think everyone has, over the past few weeks, gotten incredible waves here. So yeah, they're pretty much the best surfers in Newport. We're all here this morning. Christian Fletcher was here. Grayson Fletcher was here. Yeah, a lot of really good surfers. All you need is one. One wave is all you need to make the whole trip up here worth it. Yeah, that was one of the better waves I've gotten here this summer for sure. Steve Taylor has one of these. Really? Yep. Diamond hit. Oh, it's a crystal? Yeah. Crystal refractor. Glistening in the sunlight. The band-aid is coming along pretty nicely. Oh, the band-aid gets bigger with every passing moment. Look at all this tarp action. Oh wow, you can see it all stuck to the street. halfway through in two days we might have two more days to go two more days of trench foot for the guy at the bottom yeah today was actually kind of big and waves are still washing up pretty much to the cliff edge and the tide doesn't get that high today it's like neap tides today it's pretty much as mellow as the tides get this month the peak high tide is like a 4.1 i think next weekend around this time it'll be about a six foot high tide if you incorporate the Kelvin wave it'll be closer to a seven foot high tide thankfully there's not too much swell in the forecast for next weekend but i think even like a four foot wave with a seven foot high tide is still gonna smoke that that berm or the bluff and then we got rains next week too wednesday thursday friday looks like it could rain so it could get interesting next week i I think next week is going to determine, like, do we have months of the crack like that? Or do we have days? So we'll see. But we might not be able to see because the tarp's over the crack. Waves are still washing up to the bottom of the cliff. Caltrans workers are still getting wet. We watched one sandbag that they were dropping down from PCH loosen a rock on the cliff. It looked like it hit a dude's hand. So that's a pretty challenging job to be working right now. you're getting wet and risking getting hit by rocks that are falling down the cliff and yeah that thing is just not stable you we can see some new um areas that shed off the cliff between yesterday and today there's uh it's pretty pretty easy to tell where like new dirt has fallen because it's all crumbly and starts to like kind of pile up on itself yeah they're about halfway through with tarping the crack and hopefully preventing further erosion from the rain. I think that's the whole purpose of the plastic tarp. It's to prevent the rain from getting into that crack and making everything even more susceptible to slide. Look at Main Beach. The bermage at Main is pretty insane. It's a wall. This was all underwater like a week ago. Final stop of the day. Aliso Beach high tide four point something high tide which means it's more like a five which means there's gonna be a ton of backwash probably off the parking lot whoa check out this stretch limo whoa it's bedazzled yeah we shot some aerial footage of Aliso Beach a couple of winters ago when the sand was just piled up in front of the parking lot and you know it's it's a good amount of beach to show what it looks like now in comparison is a pretty pretty stark difference so yeah we're gonna head back down to Aliso for the last stop of the day in the palm tree we get some lunch at the Lost Pier you can see chunks of the sidewalk down there i think that sidewalk and then there's the old pier pilings from the pier that used to be here oh this one could be gnarly too sky oh my gosh oh my god this set's mega biggest wave i've seen today the backwashes are insane right now it's as good as it gets that's what we were waiting we just had to wait an hour and a half for it but that was a 10 wave set and some of them were so big that it broke out before it hit the the break wall in here so it didn't even make that big of a backwash but the first few waves of that set hit the seawall sent a backwash out and then made the wave just explode probably 10-15 feet into the air the last pier have a drink you get a nice sea mist you don't even get a sea breeze you get a sea mist you want misters they got them right here we watched a hundred foot backwash a hundred foot wave a hundred foot wave at Aliso it was a backwash they hit a wave and it actually the backwash went higher maybe as high if not higher than a palm tree i'd never seen anything like that and it was just like the perfect timing where the wave was cresting here the backwash was hitting here and it just exploded it into space never a dull moment