High & Wide Wednesday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

So you wander down these alleyways in Marrakech and you halfway expect Jesus and the apostles to come walking around the corner.  It's like nothing much has changed in one or two thousand years.  You turn down this corridor and it's rug merchants for blocks.  Almost no one leaves this area without a rug.  On the way back a week later, the agents at Ryanair were stuffing their tills with the cash from the extra baggage.  The Professor offered to let his rug (a fine example of the Berber Blue people at the base of the Atlas mountains) be used as a runner down the aisle-way.  "Thank you!  But that will be 25 euro!"

Overcast this morning, breaking into some partly cloudy skies and quite delightful.  Winds were from the south at 2kts and the sea surface was smooth.  The air temperature was 64.5˚ and the water is 69.3˚ at the buoy and posted 71˚ at the Hermosa Pier.  High tide was at 9:46am +3.8' and low tide will be at 2:29pm +2.0'.  We have a SSW swell out of 200˚ at 3.9' and it's showing 3' to 4' if you get in before the tide can float you away...

One of the things that bring you back to current times is the number of small motor scooters that zip all along the pathways.  Certainly hundreds of them (and maybe thousands) the locals  use them when they're in a hurry...  and they're in a hurry a lot!  The women drive them in full burqa, veils flying in the breeze.  This guy was stressing because he had some fresh beef hocks that he was trying to get home asap...  "Hey Mustafa!  How do you get cow blood off of a fender?" 
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!

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