Team Shredder

Subject: Swami's

I finally went on a scout mission to world-famous Swami's. New Werkplatz is closer to it, and they stuck me with a 4-hour break between clients.
What could I do but drive west through Carmel Valley and north up the Pacific Coast Highway?
The scenery all along that route is a 10 out of 10, so that alone would have been enough. Being The Capt'n, though, I had to obsessively check the surf, but everywhere I looked was small and blown out. Solana Beach, Del Mar, south Encinitas...nothing looked worth it. Nothing to do but continue on up the PCH. Which is when I got the idea about Swami's.
I'd been there before, sure, but only to watch or walk along the beach, and that was years ago.
The idea of surfing such a well-known and thus always crowded place, dangerous when big because it breaks on shallow reef, is actually unappealing to me. But this day was small, windless in this one place, and nobody was out. A perfect oppurtunity to push through my nervousness, go down the 137 stairs, and end up having a cute little time.