Fool's Gold Friday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

Today if some tar blobs wash up on the beach you get a phalanx of convicts in hazmat gear (including life preservers and hard hats.  We understand the life preservers, since you could get sucked in by a rogue wave and washed out to sea.  But the hard hats are a bit of a mystery, unless they're still worried that the tar might be raining from the sky.  Ed.)  Now, back in the olden days, you just sent your kids down to play on the beach.  When they returned the beach was pristine and you merely washed them down with paint thinner.  In all fairness, they would have loved the hard hats...  (photo credits:  Barry Santos, LB Photos.  John Heath "Doc" Ball, California Surfriders 1946)

NO, you can't go in the water and we don't care what your mother said!  Despite all the tar we have 10 miles visibility under overcast skies.  Winds were light from the SSE 150˚ at 2.9kts and the sea surface was a petrolated oily glass.  The air temp was 58.3˚ and the water is 62.4˚ because the black tar holds the heat and it's warming the water.  High tide was at 7:45am +3.5' and low tide will be at 1:06pm +1.5'.
We have a WSW swell out of 240˚ at 3.3' and it was 3'.  The lifeguards were telling people to get out of the water, but if you didn't get out they said something like, "Well, we warned you..." 

The Meth Hunter clarified why the hazmat crews wear those suits.  They were dressed by attorneys.  DDM

5:30pm.  LoLa & the Professor's house.  Eat, drink, socialize, repeat...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!

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