Perspective: On California’s coast, humans ride out nature’s rage
For days it rendered the jewel-like, overpriced golf courses in the area mostly unplayable. Rogue waves chased duffers off the oceanside 14th hole at Monterey Peninsula Golf Club, which sits just behind Pebble. At Spyglass and Cypress Point, holes stood barren, no one willing to shell out exorbitant sums for the privilege of getting their hats blown off and pants cuffs caught in an undertow.
At storied old Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz, you can stand at a railing on a lighthouse bluff and stare straight down upon some of the best big-wave riders and daring athletes on the planet. It’s one of the world’s greatest free amphitheaters. The atmospheric river made it fierce with flood runoff and shattered timber, and the view of the wrecked beaches and piers was mournful — and dangerous seeming.
“There’s a lot of wood in the water,” said Grant Washburn, a 30-year veteran of the coast known for his mastery of the big wave break Mavericks. Also, a little-known side effect of storm surfing in brown-grey water is, “You get a sinus infection almost every time,” Washburn says. “Makes you sick. It’s impossible to do without getting a ton of water in the nose and ears.”Still, on even some of the worst days the water has been pocked with surfers.
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