Freckled Face Friday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

Okay, one more Waikiki shot to end the week.  How'd you like to be out there in the right spot, just sitting in that swimming pool-aqua-blue-water waiting for this outsider to send you flying through two or three zip codes on your way to a mai-tai on the beach.  Get an extra umbrella to wear behind your ear...

Overcast this morning and 9 miles visibility.  Winds were onshore from the get-go to 5.2kts and the sea surface had a light chop.  The air temp at checkout was a chilly 60.3° and the water reads 63.5°, but everyone says it's warmer in the lineup than yesterday?  Low tide is at 6:16am +1.5' and high tide follows at 12:48pm +5.9'.  We have a SSW swell out of 200° true at 5.2'.  Now, some places are 5.2' and some places look bigger.  Like El Porto, it looks bigger.  Then there's the Cove.  It looks good, but you might be out there with 25 of your best friends.  All of our favorite places just seemed to be wrong.  Now, we could go to Malibu like Mike and Chris Murphy did last night.  Yep, at 10pm there were only a dozen guys in the water and the Murphy's were making the best use of all those carrots they had eaten as kids.  We'll check it out again later...

Pig roast:  A week from tomorrow, September 10 at 4pm.  Note to Farmer John:  Whatever you do, don't tell the pig.  He's still running around out there somewhere near Cudahy. 

Then, there's this sign that we saw next to the official "Dead End" sign.  There's this sign and a gate to stop you, but now they don't want you parking there either.  Kinda like they want it their own way and you can just leave.  So, we did...  ✠
 
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!

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