The Pit is Back

Ayyyye whats up guys.

This weekend was crazy. Hurricane Irene did her part and we did ours...

Local favorite Mike Gleason pulling into a peeler.. Proving that Westend, Long Branch is back and better than ever. Photo: Jeremy Sciarappa

I'm sure most of you can agree that the media took this storm out of proportion; however, it didn't undermine the swell that it produced. Thank God. We haven't had a swell like Irene in years, and it was much needed. Although, there was a bit of damage from North Carolina to Jersey to Long Island, it didn't matter to those waiting for the offshore winds on Sunday (August 28th) to smack the SE swell on Irene's bosom.

Living on the northern beaches in NJ for this storm was a pretty horrendous. Waking up to power lines dancing on the street, transformers sparking 2 inches above 5 foot surge flood, trees fallen across entire yards, and broken pieces of sea wall thrown 100 yards on to neighboring driveways was just like a coffee before entering into Irene's 18 foot pipeline of a hurricane. Let the pictures say the rest..

The Pit is back.

Photo: Cicero

O wam bam - Yes that's Jersey.

Photo: Cicero

Annnnnd for a little short, I found this guy on the Yootoob. Pretty well done, Foster the People and at the right spot - The Pit:

Thank you to the thesurfersview.com for the sick slideshow!

Stay Strange this September - surf is coming.

Anticipation

September in New Jersey is a special time of year. The beaches clean up, the streets widen, and the surf finally pumps. All surfers in NJ know not to pack their bags for a foreign surf excursion, but to stay put and watch some of the best beach breaks on the planet develop right in front of their very eyes. All NJ surfers can start to smell the winds and rain of the tropical storms hundreds of miles south. They have their boards ready in hand, always anticipating the next Hurricane "_________" to make her way to the dirty beaches of the Parkway state.

NJ surfmen and women find it hard to predict the surf. Swellinfo, surfline, magic seaweed, (dukestorm RIP), the weather channel. They're all loose cannons shouting out different opinions. Tropical storms really like to surprise the NJ coast, and that's that. You just have to be at the right place at the right time. And when its on, its on...

Classic Hurricane Ernesto (2006)

Be sure to keep your ears peeled and your eyes listening for this weekend. It looks like it should be a fulfilling! But where to go?? Let us introduce you to Hurricane Irene:

Swellinfo - Say it aint so.

STaY STRaNGE