First Day Of Summer/Another First Aid/It's 5 O'clock Somewhere Friday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

So, when you paddle out with the Danger Boy, you KNOW that anything can happen.  It's Hermosa, there's a tidal push, it's 3' to 4' kinda crashy, but makeable if you step on it... Oh yeah, it's the first day of summer and the water is 68˚.  Jimmy Thomas, Milo, Rasta Pete and Kris Hall are already out.  Kinda hazy withy 15 miles visibility and the wind is still offshore by about 2.7kts and the sea surface has that little roll it's been doing for the past week.  The air is warming up and the tide is high at 8:59am +3.8' and low tide will follow at 1:45pm +1.7'.  The swell is out of 262˚ west at 3.9' and some of the outsides are maybe ear lobe high.

Danger Boy and the Professor decide that the best idea would be to paddle out in the rip next to the pier.  The Professor leads the way and both get out without getting their hair wet.  They barely get to the line up and this wave goes vertical.  The Professor yells, "Danger Boy AWAY!"  And like he does, Danger Boy took off like an anti-ballistic missile from some super secret location in North Dakota.  He's flyin'!  All of a sudden he just disappears!  Poof!  He's gone...  Like he had just hit the warp speed button.  Everybody's lookin', blinkin' into the sun, scouring the water for a trace...  Nothing, nothing, nothing and then just like he disappeared he surfaces and he's bleeding from the left temple and his little finger is crimson.  "What happened?"  He says, "I don't know exactly, but I think I hit a piece of space junk on the jump to hyper-space."  We all nod...  Yeah, that had to be it...  Oh yeah and the fins (vertical stabilizers,) they'll slice you up...

Back at the "Fortress of Danger™"  Danger Boy and the Professor had a libation to anesthetize the wound and get their stories straight.  Which doesn't quite explain why the Professor needed anesthesia, but when in Rome...

#1 DB & Tres Generacions anesthetic.  Extra Pink BandAid™ waterproof adhesive strip (courtesy L.A. County Lifeguards.)  #2  Surf like an Egyptian.  DB thinkin' he should'a wore his (hard) hat this morning...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!

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