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Again, no bad feelings to the school class, just personal disappointment of not being able to take advantage of the nice liquid lines running in now on a more regular basis. Daylight was already fading, and I decided not to go to check other places. Instead, I ate something while watching the circus in front of my van and then started the van to drive back home.
On the five-hours drive I had plenty of time to reflect on this trip and the waves and the forecast. There probably had been nothing mysterious with the swell, no ghosting or any other strange events. Obviously the two storm systems had created two significant pulses which happened to arrive at the local shores during the already way too long dark. Then, windfinder apparently had difficulties in forecasting high period swells correctly (magicseaweed was more accurate in its swell forecast).
Anything with forecasted periods over 13 seconds and prognoses wave heights under a meter (windfinder) / under a foot (magicseaweed) is way too inconsistent to make it worth to go, particularly with short winter days and sharply dropping temperatures up north. For me that meant that my surf season in the north was finished for this year.
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