The breaks south of town are not a secret, but the timing is. Most visitors paddle out at the wrong hour, fight the wind for an hour, and decide the surf here is overrated. The locals know better, and the rule is simple: go early, and check the season before you check the forecast.
Read the season first
Summer brings the south swells, mellow and forgiving, the right time to learn or to ease back in after a winter off. Winter turns the same points longer and faster, better for anyone who already knows what they are doing. Neither is wrong; they are just different waves, and the board you bring should match.
Whatever the season, the wind decides the morning. The water sits glassy until around ten, when the onshore breeze comes up and chops it apart for the rest of the day. That is why the lot empties by mid-morning. The people who look like they live here are not tougher than you. They just got up earlier.
What we keep at the gate
We hold boards and wetsuits for guests, plus a few stand-up paddleboards for the flat mornings when the point is not doing much. The front desk checks the swell each evening and will tell you, honestly, whether it is worth the early alarm or whether you are better off with a coffee on the bluff. Some mornings the answer is the coffee. That counts as surf advice too.
Reservations
Come see it for yourself.
Sixteen sun-washed rooms above the Pacific. Pick a week and we will hold the room.
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