Honeymoon Island State Park is a super fun wave.  It has a tendency to be smaller than waves closer by, but it has far superior shape.  North lot is the northern most parking lot.  One year a strong storm washed away the beach and with it the sidewalk and part of the parking lot.  The beach has been deteriorating quickly with each cold front and summer storm since.  It is in dire need of renourishment.  The engineering company working on this project is still in the t-groin phase, but will eventually replenish the sand that was once there.

The t-groins are producing an interesting looking wave.  From one angle the wave looks like a fast dredging wave.  The left in front of the jetty looks dangerous, but hollow, at least on this smaller day. The right looks mellow, with the potential to be a quick hollow wave, ledging off on the inside. It looks like it has a clear channel in between the jetties.

 

From another angle (below) it looks like a super well lined up sandbar.  It appears to have no variation in it’s shape.  It looks like the Ultimar’s dizygotic twin.   It collects swell pointed at a sharp angle in relation to the beach, creating a smaller but consistent wave shape.

It also looks like it has a longer left (below) with this west swell direction.   It appears to have a reasonable amount of risk associated with regular northwest windswell downcurrent rip and the structure on the beach.

 

The Cafe was also breaking today.  No dredging or T-groins are being added here.  We can rest assured this long right will remain untouched.  There were fun looking longboard waves  here today and no one out.

As scary as it is to think that our surfing beach has the potential to be completely ruined, it is also fun to watch it change and evolve.  We get to use our imagination to think of what is possible.  We get to surf new and exciting waves with the changing shapes of the waves.