2024.07-08 great lakes surfer obx trip, shuffled mix

drove to nags head outer banks area with my wife for a week & brought a couple boards with that have never been in salt water. while these werent huge waves or anything, i found there were more similarities to surfing the great lakes than there were differences. biggest thing i noticed was i had more time to paddle out & never really struggled to get out ever so i had a lot more energy. lakes waves white wash seems to be more dense as well - could just be in my head. i didnt really notice much of the salt water buoyancy difference. could just be im used to a lot of float with my boards as is. i could understand the difference being more noticeable on performance or lower volume boards.
i forgot to take off the cold water wax from the 8'0 migration loon board and realized the wax was what was killing my skin/areas hah. took about 2-3 sessions to figure it out but made a huge diff after.
didnt record every session but still got tons of footage - soloshot tracked pretty good but messed up on some. threw a bunch of rides from each session and tried to mix it up a bit, so many to choose from. weather was excellent with no rain the whole time we were there.
80-95°F air temp & 72-78°F water temp (roughly)
#outerbanks #surfing #eastcoastsurfing

[@emisurfchannel2280]

Beatiful scenary 🎉🎉

[@ampvlogs2320]

Beautiful summer surf. Looks like the trip was a great success!

[@ahbwisurfnpaddle]

What a great trip it sounds like you and the mrs. had ! Such clean looking waves.....so bithen you got in some salt water rides...!!!!!

[@FreshwaterFloof]

Going from the lake to the ocean is always such a trip. So much more power. Get out to Hawaii if you can, so much power there.

[@southendsurfer]

Nice score. Surf city NC is a great spot too

[@charleskoehler9873]

More fun than a person should be allowed to have.

[@savierlpz5519]

Bro nice for summer!!

[@rickkerrypollak6208]

OBX is fun bro. glad you got salty

[@eddiewouldknow]

You're logging more surf hours than most people, those waves look so fun, glad you made the trip!

[@renzyyy]

thanks - trying to improve while i still can lol think im starting to plateau on the waves around the midwest, might have to start making some more ocean trips 😎

[@eddiewouldknow]

@@renzyyy Travel or don't, as long as you're having fun, never quit! I'm almost 69 and I surfed 16 hours in the past 8 days from Hurricane Ernesto. I'm sore as heck but I always was after surfing, even 50 years ago. But - back then, I surfed 16 hours in 2 or 3 days! haha I love to watch your vids, it's always amazing to me how frequent you're surfing Sheboygan and the Great Lakes.

[@subterfusion4005]

Come back in Sept