El Porto is famous for being very crowded and not very good. It’s a beautiful place, though. A wide strip of sand. Happy, healthy people jogging down the Strand under the sun. Thousands of people paddling around each other, battling for sub-par waves. But all spots get good sometimes, and on November 5, El Porto got really, really good. For about 30 minutes.
Brad Jacobson was there, as he usually is, with his camera in hand. Hunter Jones was too, as he usually is when anywhere in the South Bay gets good. Jones knows how rare conditions like the ones you see in this video are, and he’s very glad he was there to surf them.
“I got here and it was a little windy, but there were a couple of really cool setups,” Jones said. “So I paddled out, got sucked all the way down the beach because the current is unbelievable, and then I re-paddled out and got one pretty sick one.”
It’s not often that El Porto serves up waves like these, but when it does, you can be sure someone will be on them. And this time, it was Hunter Jones who was the lucky one.
