Well Oiled Wednesday Surf & Culture Report
Lost Boys & Co...
You have to appreciate the artistic integrity of this piece which LoLa is standing next to in Baléal. Starting with your basic "No Parking" sign, some wag transformed it into a object d' art. A little square nosed, even for the Professor and a couple too many fins, but still it spoke to us. The best part was this guy had done it to almost all of the no parking signs on the beach! Not only was it clever, but he had a significant body of work...
Lookin' like June out there this morning with 5 miles visibility and overcast skies. It's Wednesday so no parking on the south side of Topaz St. Winds were firm out of the SSW by 6.3kts and the sea surface was just below a chop. The air temperature was 60.5° and the water was up a couple from yesterday to 57.4°. Low tide was at 9:05am +0.4' and high tide will be at 4:09pm +4.6'. We've still got a SSW swell out of 205°, but it's jumped to 4.6'. There's enough bend in it to hit Topaz and Sapphire so it was 3' to 4' with some nice little corners off the jetty. With that south wind, Topaz got bumped early, but Sapphire held it for some time in the lee of the rocks. Let's hope it holds for tomorrow!
Photo #2 describes the set-up where you can walk down the stairs to this little cove near the point at Baléal and paddle right out into the lineup! The fishermen launch their boats out of this slot and it only closes out on the most radical days - which are probably more frequent than we would imagine. The water was warm (almost 70°) and looked a lot like our own blue-green southern California H₂O. #3 shows the Tres Mares B&B. It's actually 3 B&B's owned by three sisters! You'd think that it might cause some friction, but if one sister's place is filled up, she sends you next door to sister #2 and so forth. You can tell our room - it's got the wetsuit in the window...
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
The Professor!!
You have to appreciate the artistic integrity of this piece which LoLa is standing next to in Baléal. Starting with your basic "No Parking" sign, some wag transformed it into a object d' art. A little square nosed, even for the Professor and a couple too many fins, but still it spoke to us. The best part was this guy had done it to almost all of the no parking signs on the beach! Not only was it clever, but he had a significant body of work...
Lookin' like June out there this morning with 5 miles visibility and overcast skies. It's Wednesday so no parking on the south side of Topaz St. Winds were firm out of the SSW by 6.3kts and the sea surface was just below a chop. The air temperature was 60.5° and the water was up a couple from yesterday to 57.4°. Low tide was at 9:05am +0.4' and high tide will be at 4:09pm +4.6'. We've still got a SSW swell out of 205°, but it's jumped to 4.6'. There's enough bend in it to hit Topaz and Sapphire so it was 3' to 4' with some nice little corners off the jetty. With that south wind, Topaz got bumped early, but Sapphire held it for some time in the lee of the rocks. Let's hope it holds for tomorrow!
Photo #2 describes the set-up where you can walk down the stairs to this little cove near the point at Baléal and paddle right out into the lineup! The fishermen launch their boats out of this slot and it only closes out on the most radical days - which are probably more frequent than we would imagine. The water was warm (almost 70°) and looked a lot like our own blue-green southern California H₂O. #3 shows the Tres Mares B&B. It's actually 3 B&B's owned by three sisters! You'd think that it might cause some friction, but if one sister's place is filled up, she sends you next door to sister #2 and so forth. You can tell our room - it's got the wetsuit in the window...
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
