Thyestean Thursday Surf & Culture Report
Lost Boys & Co...
Good morning, leaders of the lovely. We caught Mike "Poseur" McKinney this morning returning from an early outrigger session. He's geting ready for the competitive season, coming up in a couple of months. He happened to mention that he's been doing some work with infra-red photography and we asked him to share a couple of examples. In both of these striking images you can see the Joshua trees, with a dusting of snow, silhouetted against the almost black sky. No, no, the skies not black - it just looks that way when you suck out all of the infra-red. We're always stoked to show Poseur's photography. He's won numerous awards over the years and has done some trippy things including 3-D and stereoscopic imaging.
A few hours away from Joshua Tree, here in the South Bay the sky was a brilliant black - no wait, make that blue and we had 20 miles visibility. Winds were offshore by 7.8kts and the sea surface was smooth. The air temp at checkout time was a chilly 47.8° and the water was a full ten degrees warmer at 58.8°. High tide was at 7:06am +6.7' and low tide followed at 2:21pm -1.6'. The buoy was reading a west swell out of 266° at 4.3' and we were calling the waves a good 3' to 5' with an occasional sneaker looming off the jetty at Topaz. We've surfed Topaz for the last three days and there have been some good waves! The window for the best waves keeps shifting later in the morning, but it was breaking by nine and the wind was still offshore. The swell is supposed to hold through tomorrow and then we're supposed to get a piece of that current swell that's hitting the Hawaiian Islands. It's supposed to get bigger, but not as big as last weekend. Since the Jetstream has slipped to the north, it's diverted the rain action away from Southern California. This means we should get the waves without the rain that's been characteristic of the last few storms. So for those of you who have trouble with the run-off, that should be good news.
Another reminder for Keegan's tomorrow night... The time (7pm to 9pm) is perfect for old coots and hard core surfistas who want to make the dawn patrol. By the way, there is no truth to the rumor that the girls from "The Girl Next Door" are going to be there. Now, it is true that the lead singer Ron Fredrick's, does do their custom spray on tans. But he hasn't invited them and we wouldn't recognize them even if they came. And NO, he doesn't need an assistant...
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
The Professor!!
Good morning, leaders of the lovely. We caught Mike "Poseur" McKinney this morning returning from an early outrigger session. He's geting ready for the competitive season, coming up in a couple of months. He happened to mention that he's been doing some work with infra-red photography and we asked him to share a couple of examples. In both of these striking images you can see the Joshua trees, with a dusting of snow, silhouetted against the almost black sky. No, no, the skies not black - it just looks that way when you suck out all of the infra-red. We're always stoked to show Poseur's photography. He's won numerous awards over the years and has done some trippy things including 3-D and stereoscopic imaging.
A few hours away from Joshua Tree, here in the South Bay the sky was a brilliant black - no wait, make that blue and we had 20 miles visibility. Winds were offshore by 7.8kts and the sea surface was smooth. The air temp at checkout time was a chilly 47.8° and the water was a full ten degrees warmer at 58.8°. High tide was at 7:06am +6.7' and low tide followed at 2:21pm -1.6'. The buoy was reading a west swell out of 266° at 4.3' and we were calling the waves a good 3' to 5' with an occasional sneaker looming off the jetty at Topaz. We've surfed Topaz for the last three days and there have been some good waves! The window for the best waves keeps shifting later in the morning, but it was breaking by nine and the wind was still offshore. The swell is supposed to hold through tomorrow and then we're supposed to get a piece of that current swell that's hitting the Hawaiian Islands. It's supposed to get bigger, but not as big as last weekend. Since the Jetstream has slipped to the north, it's diverted the rain action away from Southern California. This means we should get the waves without the rain that's been characteristic of the last few storms. So for those of you who have trouble with the run-off, that should be good news.
Another reminder for Keegan's tomorrow night... The time (7pm to 9pm) is perfect for old coots and hard core surfistas who want to make the dawn patrol. By the way, there is no truth to the rumor that the girls from "The Girl Next Door" are going to be there. Now, it is true that the lead singer Ron Fredrick's, does do their custom spray on tans. But he hasn't invited them and we wouldn't recognize them even if they came. And NO, he doesn't need an assistant...
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
The Professor!!
