"Magic May: 30 Days of South Swell" (Watch)
"You should've been here earlier."
We've all heard that before. Nothing fills a surfer with regret like arriving at your local break to be told the waves were "so good" until just a little while ago.
It turns out the waves were "so good" everywhere last May and Surfline is here to rub it in with it's latest video, Magic May. Apparently, we all should've been somewhere, somehow, scoring. If you weren't, watch below for a deep sense of "shoulda, coulda, woulda."
Surfline captioned the video:
More than one surfer from more than one surf spot up and down the coast of the Americas said this even before the month was over. Turned out, May's dream run of south swell actually extended into the first week of June, and surfers from south-facing breaks from Chile to Canada are still talking about the dream run in wistful tones.
And while the dream run was definitely dreamier and more consistent in some places than others (here's looking at you, Puerto Escondido), nearly every marquee south-facing spot had days and days of good to excellent surf. In Chile, Punta Lobos returned for what turned out to a be a few of the best big-wave sessions there in years.
Nicaragua's offshore beach breaks and slabs lit up for days on end. Puerto pumped. (And won the month, hands down.) The Wedge dished out backwash chaos and glory in equal measure. Under a persistent May Gray, Lowers just didn't stop, same with Malibu and many points in Santa Cruz.
By the first week of June, many surfers were spent. Sleepwalking. Many couldn't remember one swell over another 'cause they all ran together in a kind of, well, dream. 'Course by June 15th, relationships mended, boards fixed, wetsuits dried, everyone started looking for the next one.
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