Winning Wednesday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

Here 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 grounds and found her with a group of kids playing basketball!  Outside of television, they had never seen a real-live woman shoot hoops.  They had their tallest player (who sold jewelry on the beach) guarding her, but she kept hip-checking him into the planter next to the court.  Team LoLa:  52  Guatemala: 38.

Overcast this morning with 5 miles visibility.  Winds were calm until about 7:15am and then they turned on by 2.3kts.  The sea surface was smooth.  The air temperature was 61.3° and the water was 64.2°, up a couple from yesterday's chilly 62.  Low tide is at 10:10am +2.8' and high tide will be at 3:21pm 4.0'.  We have a WSW swell out of 240° true at 3.0'.  The surf was 2' to 3' and there were some corners if you knew where to look.

Redondo Union beat San Pedro this morning, in a not-so-close battle at Hermosa Pier.  Saturday, there's a multi-team event starting at 8am (until noon) at the Hermosa Pier.  Check it out if you have some free time!
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!

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