A Little Flab On The Friday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

You know when Webster's first recognized the noun "flab?"  1951.  You'd have thought that there was flab around before then.  Maybe folks were just in a helluva lot better
shape in the old days.  Or maybe they just didn't call it flab.  Maybe they called it pudge.  No, that's not even in the dictionary.  Wait, pudgy is!  So you could be pudgy and get along just fine.  That is until 1951 and it turned to flab...  That sucks...

Photo #1 is Danger Boy with his iridium coated, optically correct, 3-D anti-shadowing, anti-distortion, anti-ghosting, low reflectivity, high contrast goggles.  You might remember in episode XXI of the Danger Boy Chronicles, he battled the Foam Ball Bandit, for the Burning Spartan Spear.  Part of the swag he got from that battle were the goggles.  Oh, yeah and the utility belt...

Partly cloudy skies with the sun ricocheting off the clouds and making for perfect Simpson skies.  15 miles visibility, unless what you're looking for is incredible large (like the sun.)  Of course if what you're looking for is incredibly small, it's way less than 15 miles (like a Chihuahua.)  Winds out of the WNW by 4.6kts and the sea surface has a bit of a short chop.  The air temp is 64.8° and the water is 64.2°.  Not nearly warm enough for some body surfing.  High tide is at 10:52am +4.3' and low tide will follow at 3:47pm +1.9'.  The real low tide is in the morning at 4:25am at a -1.1'.  You can expect lows in the morning all weekend, with highs around mid-day.  The buoy is reading a SSW swell out of 206° at 3.9'.  Not as big as yesterday, but still fun at 3' to 4' with some fat outsides.  Ben Fortune, caught the wave of the morning, with a ledging left-hander in the center of the takeoff area at Sandyland.  It looked like Ala Moana.  He uncharacteristically, didn't run to the nose, but styled it down the face and then made a run to almost 615.  Hoots all the way around...

(If you think "To be or not to be..." is the question, then ponder this...  Ed.)
Why is it always good when I'm gone and shitty when I'm home?
TJ

In the depths of the northern woods, the Professor ran across this Tiki.  Nobody around.  No Polynesians, nobody.  Not even a bar with palm trees and carved-out pineapples for Mai-Tai's.  It was and remains, a mystery...
 ✠
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
The Professor!!

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