Gaviota Surf Adventure

I headed back to my graduate school stomping grounds for a weekend of ghetto camping and surfing along the exclusive Gaviota coast. The weather was exceptionally windy and the swell was pumping all weekend. With the boat we were able to find some sheltered waves but in the precess of getting there required a sever beating by the elements.

Sequoia and Kings Canyon NP

Julia and I took a road trip to Sequoia and Kings Canyon national park. We did some great hikes around the high elevation alpine lakes among the picturesque treeless granite fields. We backpacked in to a lake for the day where I fished for a delicious dinner of wild trout. I feel most at peace camping when I have a big open sky overhead to ponder on the endless sea of stars. The contrast between the towering granite peaks, open sky, and surrounding wilderness helps me escape the normal fast pace of life and and get back to some primal state of existence where the complications of day-to-day life disappear.

Offshore Fishing for Tuna and Mahi

The fishing has been good this summer and I finally got the chance to make it out on a buddies boat to get in on the action myself and put some blood on the deck. The warm water has brought in the exotics like mahi mahi and thick schools of yellowfin.