@@samuelajones I just wish the fog had cleared up. The biggest sets were breaking pretty far out past the end of the jetty. My lens at max length could barely see them.
It is some time ago, when we 3 idiots headed across the low part of the jetty to reach this high end to look out at the 30-35 ft (real - from a Hawaiian -raised kid. not the 8 ft waves that news stations and mainlanders call 20, or the 35 everywhere called 60, or the 45 called 100 by saucer-eyed jetski-towed self-inflators) waves dropping like big curtains far outside. We'd race back from the tower running, watching each other disappear in the hosing spray. Made a mistake returning: i turned, looked UP at a wall 15'+ over our heads. It washed us and a black lab who had ventured out with us for the excitement. off as easily as flies. with only one foolish enough to grab for a rock to hang on - his fingers were blood ribbons. We laughed (just as I would laugh when surfing the warm seas when suddenly a huge set would break 1/4 mile outside us.) There is nothing else to do but laugh at the beauty of life, when the most famous big wave spots suddenly close out. The lab, exuberant, returned to its elder pantry-keepers on the high sand. We are ephemeral, and live only by agility and harmony. Getting entangled with the dolossi is not recommended, as they are as unforgiving as a spider's web to a gnat.
@@briseboy yea walking along the jetty when the waves are big is a terrible idea. I tried to walk along it when the surf forecasted 15-20ft and got soaked by a big set coming thru. Thankfully my camera was in its bag otherwise it would gotten destroyed
@@Toekneepowers I was there from about 9am to 10:30am so I could catch a 12:30pm flight. Wish I could’ve stuck around to see if the waves cleaned up at all.
Even when the surf is not that high or angry, you’re always taking your life, and maybe your child’s life, into your own hands walking out on north jetty. You simply cannot predict sleeper waves.
Do not be a sleeper - such waves are called sNeaker, as when two or more swells , as they travel, lose the first set wave, and another rises behind. an odd characteristic of the physics of water with its circular to elliptical motion. (bodysurfing the shorebreaky beach before the road turns in to Orick, where people unfamiliar with the sea got washed away, was nice. I have stood on cliff at Waimea, watching 3 sailors unfamiliar with the sea, get erased- one unconscious, one's body later in the rocks of the SW side, the third never found. I have rescued a couple others. You are not every we, , and neither can you overgeneralize as to children who grew up at home in places where you would not survive.)
@@charlietaylor799 yea I just bought a new lens so I can film the surfing here. Unfortunately the waves weren’t quite rideable while I was there but people do surf inside the channel and out along the jetty. Subscribe and i should have some videos posted here soon
@@kaikai1070 between the jetties yes but the big waves were breaking way past the end of the jetties. Was hard to capture them between the fog and distance
Stoked. This is first time in like ten years I couldn’t make it out to the harbor to record the 30ft swell, thanks man.
@@samuelajones I just wish the fog had cleared up. The biggest sets were breaking pretty far out past the end of the jetty. My lens at max length could barely see them.
@ yea dude, it’s like off in the distance you can barely make the biggest waves you’ll ever see.
Humboldt has been my home for the past 74 years. The ocean was angry that day.
Not a good day to go out crabbing. Woodstove and a stiff irish coffee. 👋👱♀️🐈🐈🐈⬛🐾💕
Great footage thank you! Id been wanting someone to post the surf at the north jetty for days now lol! ❤
@@robinlathim8221 more surf footage to come 👍
I've watched guys ride the channel for close to a mile between North and South Jetties, towing in with wave runners.
Where’s that footy
@@caseymckenzie8065 Only got a photo
It is some time ago, when we 3 idiots headed across the low part of the jetty to reach this high end to look out at the 30-35 ft (real - from a Hawaiian -raised kid. not the 8 ft waves that news stations and mainlanders call 20, or the 35 everywhere called 60, or the 45 called 100 by saucer-eyed jetski-towed self-inflators)
waves dropping like big curtains far outside.
We'd race back from the tower running, watching each other disappear in the hosing spray.
Made a mistake returning: i turned, looked UP at a wall 15'+ over our heads.
It washed us and a black lab who had ventured out with us for the excitement. off as easily as flies. with only one foolish enough to grab for a rock to hang on - his fingers were blood ribbons.
We laughed (just as I would laugh when surfing the warm seas when suddenly a huge set would break 1/4 mile outside us.) There is nothing else to do but laugh at the beauty of life, when the most famous big wave spots suddenly close out.
The lab, exuberant, returned to its elder pantry-keepers on the high sand.
We are ephemeral, and live only by agility and harmony.
Getting entangled with the dolossi is not recommended, as they are as unforgiving as a spider's web to a gnat.
@@briseboy yea walking along the jetty when the waves are big is a terrible idea. I tried to walk along it when the surf forecasted 15-20ft and got soaked by a big set coming thru. Thankfully my camera was in its bag otherwise it would gotten destroyed
SICK BRAH 🌊
COVID? You need more jabbies?
@@buzz5969 what you talkin about wacko
Your flight must be leaving at 12:30am if you’re still in Humboldt watching this.
@@Toekneepowers I was there from about 9am to 10:30am so I could catch a 12:30pm flight. Wish I could’ve stuck around to see if the waves cleaned up at all.
@@SuperSickwhere the hell did you fly out of? Redding?
Looks fun out
10 foot
Dont do it Tyler. No no..
Even when the surf is not that high or angry, you’re always taking your life, and maybe your child’s life, into your own hands walking out on north jetty. You simply cannot predict sleeper waves.
Do not be a sleeper - such waves are called sNeaker, as when two or more swells , as they travel, lose the first set wave, and another rises behind. an odd characteristic of the physics of water with its circular to elliptical motion. (bodysurfing the shorebreaky beach before the road turns in to Orick, where people unfamiliar with the sea got washed away, was nice.
I have stood on cliff at Waimea, watching 3 sailors unfamiliar with the sea, get erased- one unconscious, one's body later in the rocks of the SW side, the third never found. I have rescued a couple others. You are not every we, , and neither can you overgeneralize as to children who grew up at home in places where you would not survive.)
Where's red pickup dude?
Ha Ha, not too many people will get that.
@@TinShackVideos, truly one of the funniest things on YT.
what's the beeping sound? also, does anyone surf this wave/area?
@@charlietaylor799 yea I just bought a new lens so I can film the surfing here. Unfortunately the waves weren’t quite rideable while I was there but people do surf inside the channel and out along the jetty. Subscribe and i should have some videos posted here soon
Two Foghorns at the mouth of Humboldt Bay
We just call it WINTER SWELLS.. And whoever called it 30 plus feet was def smoking crack..😊
@@buzz5969 Surfline did
Ben gravy needs to come rip that novelty wave 🌊
I been inviting him for years. He just drives by
6-8 ft
@@kaikai1070 between the jetties yes but the big waves were breaking way past the end of the jetties. Was hard to capture them between the fog and distance
nope your title is wrong bud
@@chriswendschlag1856 Surfline report for this day at this spot was 30-35 foot all day
@@chriswendschlag1856Your armchair is worn out, bud.
30-35 foot???
Yah someone is on crack…😊
Humboldt co is what state.
@@Weez412 northern California
Kansas toto
State of Jefferson 😉
A lot of Darwin Award candidates there.
Jetty looking verrrrrrrry surfable!🤙
Pictures and videos rarely do justice to mother nature
Imagine if Thee Almighty God had not put a Restraint on the waters!!! JOB 38:8-11
Ugly waves