Another Cuban Crisis Wednesday Surf & Culture Report
Lost Boys & Co...
Places where a lot of people stop: #1 La Bodequita del Medio. This is where Hemingway was a regular. Kinda like Brothers, except everyone has written their names on every bit of available wall, furniture and fixture space. It's about 15' wide on the street side and keeps expanding as you walk back to the inner restaurant and bar.
A tad smoky this morning from the fires raging in Rancho Cucamonga, but about 15 miles visibility anyway. Winds were howling offshore at about 12kts and the sea surface was a tad rippled. The air was a warm 69.5˚ and the water was warming up at the buoy to 59.2˚. High tide was at 11:14am +4.1' and low tide will be at 4:23pm +1.5'. We have a SW swell out of 225˚ at 3.0' and it's 2' to 3'.
#2. The Cathedral of the Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception is the cathedral of Havana and just happens to be where Ivan's father was married (at least once!) A remarkable colonial era building built in the baroque style it was started in 1748 and finally finished in 1777. It was built from coral rock brought up from the ocean floor. If you look carefully you can find fossils in the exterior! Castro re-instated the church in 1998 before Pope John Paul II visited. Oddly enough, he had never said the regime was atheist, but "secular." A small but significant point we imagine... You know, when you're dealing with pope's...
#3. The Museum of Chocolate. LoLa nearly ruined the dark coco exhibit by diving in head-first. You walk into that museum and rapidly discover you know nothing about chocolate.
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