Endless Session, Day 174: The Call
The call of the ocean and gliding behind the birds on Day 174. Photo by Brendan Simmons By Morgan Sliff The call of the sea is forceful, gets beneath the deepest parts of your skin, and it’s what makes a surfer familiar with the chilly darkness preceding sunrises all too well. A water lover with that profound connection to the ocean forcefully lifts his or her tired body out of bed when the rest of the world is still in slumber to plunge into the wintry ice bath that is the Pacific. The call grabbed hold of a beyond stellar group of surfers this morning, antsy to get their feet wet and dance with walls of water. 5:30 hit with a screeching alarm, but all I could hear next to my head were the beeps saying, “It’s get ready for surf trip time!” Three very important stops had to be made before the expedition to the sea started – pick up the talented musician and singer Zacc West, swoop the surfboard shaping master himself Jose Barahona, and last but surely not least grab my charging friend Gina. The troops were rallied, and with three humorously massive longboards strapped to the roof and one shortboard separating Jose and Gina in the backseat, we gassed up the surfmobile and began our…
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