Front Runner Friday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

Let's start out with that UFO that Harry Johnson has for sale.  Nice, very nice.  Heard he wants 500 samolians or Somalians or the equivalent in USD.  OBO.  You NEED a UFO for your collection...

So we all heard that there was a lot of south in this swell, so no one really-high tailed it down to the checkout this morning.  LoLa ran at 5:30am and said it was small.  So we pull up at 7:30 and there's a little less than 12 miles visibility under a hazy sky.  Winds are up out of the SW by 5.3kts and the sea surface has a pronounced ripple-almost-a-chop.  The air temp was 68.2° and the water was the devil's own 66.6°.  Low tide was at 9:08am +1.4' and high tide will follow at 4:12pm +5.3'.  But the buoy suddenly jumped up to 3.6' on a 215° SW swell.  It was enough to give us a few good ones and we're calling it 3' to almost 4' and fair to fun, with funner outsides.

Meanwhile, summer is the time for BBQing and this is an excellent example of the archetypal Idaho cheeseburger.  Maybe a little over done - but their heart is in the right place.  Chock full of cholesterol, but in the right place...

Condolences to Fred Tisue who lost his long time canine companion Maggie.  She was constantly by his side and joined him on planes, trains and automobiles.  Yes, dogs do go to heaven (actually, there are more dogs than people there...)
 
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!

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