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Day 24: January 24, 2014: Half Moon Bay, CA

I took a little journey down to Half Moon Bay on this Friday morning to check out the Mavericks surf competition.  In years past, huge crowds of spectators would gather on the beach and the bluffs to watch the surfers out off of Pillar Point.  That tradition ended after 2010, when a rogue wave came in, injuring a number of spectators.  Now the beach and bluffs are closed to spectators, and a ticket buys you a spot in a fenced in parking lot behind a hotel in Half Moon Bay, with food trucks and a live webcast on the big screen.

Unfortunately, the live feed proved quite unreliable this year, so we eventually found ourselves on the patio of the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company in front of one of their TVs.  Not the worst way to spend a Friday, but I’d probably skip the trip to the parking lot next time.

(Shot with a combination of Kodak Portra 400 in the Canon 650 and long-expired Kodak Max 800 in the Pentax K1000)