November 23rd, 2008 by admin

Adam and I left around 5:45 and headed up to Port Renfrew.  This is my first time ever being to Renfrew, what an awesome spot, definitely coming back camping.

There was a pretty thick layer of frost covering everything it was a bit nippy but a beautiful day, not a breath of wind.  Unfortunately there were no waves either.

We could see the lines approaching in sets of 4 or 5 coming in from the Northwest.  They were sooooo close, they were breaking pretty much right on shore but you could see the potential.  We hung around for about an hour or so and watched the tide come right in with our fingers crossed but it just didn’t happen.  I talked to a man who was camping on the beach and he said the waves were three times the size for the last four days.  That was the last kick in the nuts with a frozen moccasin we could take, we headed back to Sombrio. SKUNKED!

The pic below is what the waves are supposed to look like at Port Renfrew.

At Sombrio the waves looked alright but as usual there were far too many people out there trying to catch them to be even worth suiting up.

China Beach was a mild lake.  The highlight was that some way, some how, someone got a car all the way through the narrow winding trail all the way to just before the steps to get on the beach and that’s where they left it.  I really have no idea how they got it down there or how the hell they will get it out.

Jordan River looked like it was going to be alright when we first past by at day break but when we got back they had died right off to the odd white cap.

The MagicSeaweed report called for 9.5 footers which was obviously way off.