Fw: Tiananmin Square Tuesday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

Ni hao!  (Pronounced: knee-how, it means "hello")  We're back!  One of the most interesting things was coming back.  We left Beijing at 8:30pm on Monday evening and got back home at 7:00pm on Monday evening, an hour and a half before we left!  We looked, but never met ourselves coming and going...

There's a lot of really weird things to eat in China, so we'll start you off really slow...  Like breakfast, clockwise from the left:  Cabbage, light green eggs, pickled dikon, noodles, ham, purple potatoes and baby bratwurst.  It's like the Chinese didn't really have breakfast before and just picked up on stuff from everywhere else.  Of course for lunch it was dim sum of which we show several varieties, each different and vaguely recognizable.  Finally for a mid-morning snack the Professor had a sweet pea-sicle.  Better than it sounds, it ranks right up there with our favorite frozen veggie treats...

This time of year most of China is covered in a persistent haze, made worse by a ton of pollution, so it was a treat to see some blue skies here this morning.  15 miles visibility as the winds blew offshore by 3.3kts and the sea surface was smooth.  The air was a cool 50.5° and the water was 55.8°.  High tide was at 7:22am +4.9' and low tide will be at 1:50pm -0.1'.  We have a good swell out of  260° west at 5.2' and we're calling it 3' to 5' with good to better shape.

Tomorrow:  Even weirder food treats!

"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!


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