What would you get out of bed before sunrise for? I’m willing to guess not much. I would have to agree being an eighteen year old who loves my sleep. However there is one thing I have no problem getting up early for. A super clean, crisp, four foot early morning breaker. That’s right a wave, for the past few years my friends and I have made it a top priory to dawn patrol a few times a month. There is nothing better then dropping in on a wave as the sun creeps up out of the ocean. There truly is something magical about it.
This tradition was started a few years ago. One day as the summer was coming to a close we were trying to squeeze every minute we could out of the fleeting summer surf. We decided to spend as much time at the beach as we could. The night before when we were hanging out we were talking about how early we would depart for the beach. Half joking someone said “let’s get there before the sun does.” This was the start of something amazing.
It was about five o’clock when the alarm I had not heard since the last day of school started ringing. This may have been the first time I was excited to be getting out of bed at such an early hour. Before I know it I could hear the roar of my friend Denis’s pick up truck racing down my block. We soon filled his truck with surfboards, skate boards snacks and a collection of beach tunes. We were finally on our way. When we arrived at the beach we parked the truck and grabbed our home made skate boards. We let the music blast and started cruising around the parking lot weaving in and out of parking spots and getting excited for the waves that waited for us. Finally we grabbed our surfboards and paddled out. I can’t remember how the waves were that day, but to tell you the truth it doesn’t matter.
