12/20/16 Tierra Del Mar, Oceanside and Cape Lookout report

When Gabe and I (both hang gliders) arrived Oceanside this morning around 11:15, the winds were blowing 10+ mph from west and WNW at the beach. I saw some whitecaps from the NW side of the ocean. Unfortunately, it was zero winds and at times blowing very light from behind (NE direction) at launch.  We left Oside at 12:08 to check Cape Lookout and it was too light and a bit cross from the left (SW) so we headed to Tierra Del Mar instead. The winds at TDM was stronger (maybe 10 plus mph) when we first arrived and a bit cross from the right (NW).It didn't look soarable but we decided to setup anyways.It diminished down to 3-5 mph when we were ready to launch and of course ended up with sledders, then packed up quickly on the tall dry grass field and left TDM at 2:10pm to head back up north. We stopped by CLO again at 2:28 and found zero wind with no beach for landing, so we returned to Oceanside to check on conditions.Surprisingly, not much has changed from morning conditions; still a lot of beach at Oceanside, winds coming from WNW just like it was this morning when we first arrived, it was still zero winds at launch by now it was around 3pm. That's it for today, nothing exciting. Sollie or Killchis would've been good today if we had a driver. There was a lot of blue skies at Tillamook and the cloudbase was high.

Today: 16 to 18 ft super high surf with 2.2ft Low Tides at 12:30pm