Lost Boys & Co.

Lost Boys & Co... L ook, we don't care if Nanny is working the pedals...  NO ONE under two should be driving a Land Rover!  Now Toyotas and Nissans are different, we even had NaNa the surfing coyote driving the X-Terrible.  And Luke Maggio was 12 and he drove it all over PV looking for CarveBoard™ hills.  But most importantly if you insist on driving - wait until your mother is in the car!... U nder cloudy, at times, rainy skies we have 3 miles visibility and a persistent, undeniable humidity.  Winds were offshore and variable all morning up to about 4kts and the sea surface was smooth to bumpy as the fronts bumped through.  The air temp was 61.3° and the water was 63.1°.  High tide was at 9:08am +3.9' and low tide will be at 4:29pm -0.2'.  We have a west swell out of 263° at 5.9' and we're calling it 3' to 5'.  Not as big as yesterday, but some nice ones just the same... T onight we'll be gathering at Samba for an happy hour.  Around 6pm.  Expect th

Lost Boys & Co... T his frozen wave will work for a late takeoff without breaking on you.  The only trouble is that you might stick to the face.  Oh yeah, DON'T lick the ice, they might find you in a couple of hundred years frozen in place, making-A... C loudy and rainy this morning with 5.4 miles visibility.  Winds were howling out of the east and gusting to 8.0kts, while the sea surface was brushed denim (note photo #2 of Hermosa.)  The air temp was 58.3° and the water was pretty temperate at 63.1°.  High tide was at 8:37am +6.0' and low tide will follow at 3:54pm -0.4'.  We have a west swell out of 264° at 4' to 6' and that's about how it's shaping up at most spots.  Hermosa and points north had some pretty big waves, but not the best shape, while the Breakwall and Burnout had some great photo ops...  Word on the street:  more tomorrow... ✠⎌☭☜☮♣☞ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."  The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co... B ig time Metapan fans...  Getting harder to tell the gringos from the locals all the time... R egardless of the hyped reports of the impending storm, it IS starting to look a bit dark and threatening.  Cloudy skies and 7.5miles visibility.  Winds were calm at checkout and the sea surface was glassy.  The air temperature was 59.0° and the water was 62.4°.  High tide was at 8:08am +6.1' and low tide will be at 3:22pm -0.4'.  We have an almost indecipherable swell out of the SW at 223° reading 1.6' and dropping .  The surf is less than a foot, but predicted to rise as the weather pushes in and things get wet and presumably wild...  ✠ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."  The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co... B ig Wave Dave sent this pic in of the one that got away in El Porto... U nder a hazy sun we have 10 miles visibility and some clouds in the west.  Winds blustery on-shore 8 to 12kts and the sea surface is choppy.  The air temperature is 57.7° and the water is holding nicely at 63.1°.  Some significant tidal swinging with high tide at 7:40am +6.1' and low tide at 2:50pm -0.3'.  We currently have a WSW swell out of 250° at 2.3'.  It's sloshing up on shore at about 1' to 2' and everything is generally looking windy, cold and a little too small.  Everyone keeps saying mañana, but it looks more like Thursday... T hey call it a Mohawk, but it looks better on a warthog.  Wait, maybe we'll start calling it a warthog...  The haircut that is... the animal already is a warthog...  ✠ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."  The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co... N o, seriously, this was the sign on the tiger enclosure at the Boise Zoo... P artly cloudy skies this morning and 9 miles visibility.  Winds were offshore by 5.1kts and the sea surface was smooth.  The air temperature was 58.3° and the water was 63.1°.  High tide was at 7:12am +6.0' and low tide will be at 2:19pm -0.2' and looking good for some beachcombing.  The buoy is describing a SW swell out of 231° at 2.3' and it looks about half that big at the surf line.  Maybe better mañana...   ✠ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."  The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co... C ome on up to El Porto if you want some fatter outsides…well overhead sets with a lot of makeable head high stuff happening.  Big Wave Dave (We believe you - it's just hard to see that far...  Ed.) W e have 10 miles visibility under hazy fall skies.  Currently winds are calm and we have a smooth to glassy sea surface.  The air temperature at checkout was 56.3° and the water is 60.8°.  Low tide is at 9:16am +2.4 and high tide is at 2:47pm +4.1'.  We have a SW swell out of 226° at 3.0' and it's might just be about that at most spots, except for El Porto which is bigger, but also crowded with all the guys who are starting Thanksgiving early... M eanwhile we went out for coffee in Eagle, Idaho this morning and had to avoid, not only the morning traffic going to work, but the occasional tumbleweed blowing down the main drag at about 25 mph.  Interesting mixture here of rural and urban landscape.  Strip malls with small farms in between.  Brings bac

Lost Boys & Co... L ooking Fall/Wintery here in the north country.  Much too cold for our thin blood, especially after being in the tropics.  Nothing thickens the blood like a little maple syrup... V isibility is about 10 miles under a hazy fall sun.  Winds are offshore by 4.1kts and the sea surface is smooth to glassy.  The air temperature is 60.1° and the water is 60.8°.  Low tide is at 7:32am +2.7' and high tide will be at 1:17pm +4.6'.  We have a WNW swell at 3.6'and the waves a a bit smaller than expected at 1' to 2' with some fatter outsides.  ✠ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."  The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co.. . F rom Tyrone James... Hi Frank, Check out this picture Luke sent me from Espinho, Portugal.  He's been visiting Marco and surfing around Porto.  Luke is in love with Portugal.  He tells me that he could easily live there!  With waves like that, who couldn't!   (We can't think of anyone...  even the water wasn't that cold last time we were there!   Ed.) I t's STILL flat, however, we shall persist.  Trying to rain under cloudy skies and 7.5 miles visibility.  Winds were slightly offshore by 1.9 kts and the sea surface was anywhere from glassy to smooth to pool table.  The air temp and the water temp were 59.7° and that's the first time, in a long time that that has happened.  High tide will be at 10:01am +6.7' and low tide will follow at 5:21pm -1.0'.  The buoy is reading a SW swell out of 227° at 1.6'.  Take all those factors and parse them out and it equals, flat. N ote:  We will be in the great frozen north for the Thanks

Lost Boys & Co... N o, honestly we have no idea...  Other than we know that's Sam with the gun.  She looks pretty confident to us.   C loudy this morning with a chance of rain.  Visibility 10 miles.  Winds were offshore by 2.9kts and the sea surface is smoothly to glassy.  The air temp was 56.7° and the water is 60.3°.  High tide was at 9:13am +7.1' and low tide will follow at 4:27pm -1.3'.  The #46221 Buoy tells us that we have a west swell out of 268° at 1.6' and we submit that that is as generous as you might ever consider.  We consulted with a number of experts and they all agreed...  it's flat.   ✠ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."  The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co... N ew to the list today is Phil Oglesby, who was part of the crew who went to El Salvador.  You might remember that Phil was the one who threw his board under the wheels of a runaway 747 filled with orphans to bring it to a spectacular stop.  Our photo features him on top of his favorite mount "Milagro."  He rode it to the soccer game rather than ride the bus.  If it's a fast horse, it's Milagro... L ots of visibility this morning, in the 20+ mile range, with partly cloudy skies.  Winds were offshore by 4.6kts at checkout and the sea surface was smooth to glassy.  The air temperature was 56.0° and the water was 58.8°.  High tide was just that at 8:29am 7.2' and low tide will be at 3:37pm -1.4', for an 8.6' tidal differentiation.  The buoy is reading a west swell out of 267° at 1.6' and it's about half that big when it gets to the beach.  There is some rain on the way, so maybe the surf will follow the rainy weather...  ✠ &q

Lost Boys & Co... O ur photos today are cataloged under the general heading, " Paying to Play ."  In the case of Photo #1 we have Jen Doyle and Katie Parkinson smiling over the remains of Jen's board.  As fate would have it, Katie needed a long board for the semi-finals and the always helpful Jen volunteered her ride.  Everything was going great until Katie caught the final wave of the heat and got unceremoniously dumped on the sand.  She was okay, the board... uh, not so good.   A marvelously clear day under cloudless skies and unlimited visibility.  Winds were offshore in the am by 5.6kts and the sea surface was glassy.   The air temperature was 46.1° and the water, after all that wind over the weekend was down to 58.5° at the buoy ( where did you put those booties??? )  High tide was at 7:09am +6.7' and low tide will drain it out at 2:04pm -0.8' for a week of minus tides.  We have a SSW swell out of 192° at 2.0' and dropping.  We're calling it

Lost Boys & Co... W hen the sun dips down into the lake it often does so with spectacular results!  Here it sends up a plum of steam as it signals the end of another remarkable El Salvadorian day! R ain yesterday and blowing like an SOB today.  clear skies and unlimited visibility.  Winds started out light and by 10am were 15 - 18 kts.  Sea surface is chopping with large white-caps.  The air temp was a chilly 56.8° and the water was driven down by the wind to 62.8°.  High tide was at 5:33am +5.1' and low tide follows at 11:55am +1.3'.  The buoy shows a west swell out of 275° at 6.2'.  It's jumbled and rough and looking in the 5' to 7' range.  Contest mañana at Hermosa Pier, but it will hinge on whether or not this wind abates.  If it turns around... BINGO!  If not...  well.. M ail... (Danger Boy & Oscar on the SUP's) Looks easier when you hold on to the bar like Danger Boy.  You may wanna tell Oscar.   Big Daddy (Danger Boy knows all of the trick

Lost Boys & Co... W e're nothing if we're not about capturing first-time events.  Here we have a shot of Oscar Barahona, taking his first ever SUP ride.  Looks like he's been doing it forevers.  In fact it was hard to believe he had never paddled before.  He swears it was his first go.  Then we have the almost professional quality Danger Boy.  He had actually been on it for a couple of days before Oscar got there.  He was rather ecstatic about the whole thing, as you can see.  We're not SUP devotees, but we could see the utility here on the lake.  A good way to get around and way back into some of the backwaters along the typically impenetrable weeds and hyacinths.  That also reminds us that we need to get a water camera to take back into some of those areas.  You can paddle so far into the trees and inlets that it looks like a National Geographic special.  One morning LoLa and the Professor paddled up to a Night Heron rookery, a large mangrove tree teeming with b

Lost Boys & Co... H ere we have a photo taken by the noted anthropologist LoLa Carlisle Paine.  She has captured a group of revelers, who are in the process of taking part in a fiesta that started at roughly ten in the morning and went until the sun sizzled into the lake.  We were ferried to Guatemala (entering the country illegally, technically speaking) and began drinking the moment our jungle cruiser hit the dock.  Our host, the pistol packing (okay, it was a Glock, but he had it painted flat-silver) Nathan, kept the Gallo's coming all day long (we didn't drink all day since we didn't start until 10am.)  It was a 10 course meal that included a chicken starter (shown,) shrimp soup, beef, carnitas, salad, 3 varieties of tortillas and his special Guatemalan stew with pork.  To say a good time was had by all would be an understatement of classic proportion.  Note:  Somewhere between the soup and beef, we noticed LoLa wasn't at the table.  We strolled around the gro

Lost Boys & Co... O kay, we're not going to say it was like this every night.  You know, Danger Boy and the Professor serenading the assembled curious.  Honestly, some nights the Professor didn't even wear goggles.  But, a lot of nights he did.  Some hoomalimali on the road... C lear skies this morning and 20 miles visibility.  Winds were offshore by 1.9kts and the sea surface was smooth to glassy.  The ambient air temperature was 65.7° and the water was 62.6°.  Low tide was at 8:37am +3.3' and High tide was at 1:47pm +4.1'.  We have a west swell out of 260° at 2.3' and we're calling it 1' to 2' and poor to worse. M añana we have a So. Bay Surf League contest between Redondo and San Pedro at the Hermosa Beach Pier.  Action starts at 6:30am.  Always fun and even if the surf is small, you'd be surprised at the action...  ✠ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."  The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co... H ere we have the fearless LoLa flying over the Rio Apuzanga, at just a little over mach 1.  She drags her right hand to keep her in the proper attitude and to prevent spinning out of control.  This was on the second leg of our four-part cross country zip-lining flight.  At no point did she resort to the emergency chute... ✠ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."  The Professor!!