Manta Ray Monday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

Today we're going to focus a bit on the gastronomy of the northern Portuguese Raimondaians.  This was lunch at Marco's house!  It featured what  our mom always called a "boiled dinner," consisting of  linguiça, ham, morcella, chicken, beef and pig's ears.  Don't get all riled up about the pig's ears - they tasted like salty bacon and were damned delicious.  Served with "vino verde" or the local "vino tinto" and Portuguese bread (like French bread, except Portuguese) it was pretty filling.  But leave room for the second course, which just happened to be chicken soup.  LoLa had mentioned she had seen chicken feet in the store in town and Grandma responded that this was her lucky day!  Grandma had divested their chicken of it's lucky feets and put them into that very soup (along with the rest of the chicken including the gizzards and lizards.)  And they were good!  And you can be as squeamish as you want, but they were tender and tasty.  Finally, for those who persisted, was these huge tureens of flan, dusted with cinnamon and caramelized brown sugar.  Did we mention, this was lunch...

A beautiful spring day here in Lotus Land.  15 miles visibility and partly cloudy skies.  Even a couple of fat drizzlers, but mostly sunny.  Winds were offshore at checkout by 2.2kts and the sea surface was smooth to glassy.  The air temperature was 57.5 and the water was 57.0.  Low tide is pretty damned low at 7:27am -0.4' and high tide is at 2:26pm +3.9'.  The 46221 Buoy tells us we have a SSW swell out of 192 degrees at 3.0'.  Since that's a bit south for us, we'll call it 1' to 3' and poor to fair.  The tide push will probably coincide with the wind coming up, so get it while you can...
 
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!

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