Beware The South-Easter

http://www.surf-forecast.com/breaks/Timber-Cove/forecasts/latest

 "This wind (the south-easter) is the bane of the coast of California. Between the months of November and April, (including a part of each,) which is the rainy season in this latitude, you are never safe from it, and accordingly, in the ports which are open to it, vessels are obliged, during these months, to lie at anchor at a distance of three miles from the shore, with slip-ropes on their cables, ready to slip and go to sea at a moment's warning. The only ports which are safe from this wind are San Francisco and Monterey in the north, and San Diego in the south." 

--Two Years Before The Mast, Richard Henry Dana, 1840.

We were planning on going this weekend but mother nature isn't cooperating.