What's The Fourth Without A First Wednesday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

What's June without a wedding or a graduation?  On the wedding side we had Anthony Maggio and Dasha Barranik tie the knot to create the Barraggio's.  This is noteworthy in that Luke had his mother convinced that this is what they were really going to call themselves.  A fabulous event, it brought rural Healdsburg to a standstill and emptied most of the tasting rooms from Napa to Mendocino...

Cloudy this morning with 10 miles visibility.  Winds were out of the SSW by 3.1kts and there was a bit of a bump on the water from the start.  The air temperature was 71.2˚ and the water was 66.9˚ with some isolated warm spots.  High tide was at 10:17am +4.0' and low tide will be at 3:03pm +1.9' heading for some minus tides in the early morning as the week progresses.  We have a SSW swell out of 193˚ at 2.6' and it was 2' to 3' with some occasional sets.  It's a full moon tonight, so wear gloves to hide those hairy hands... DIP!...  Supposed to be building as we approach the weekend...

There were some outstanding commencement ceremonies this year (Redondo, South, U of Colorado, etc.)  But the outstanding speech has to go to the principal of Bell Gardens High School, who took on none other than Donald Trump and sounded him for his remarks on Hispanic immigrants.  B-G High is 92% Latino and this year wound up in the top 10% of US high schools academically.  Nearly all of the grads speak English and Spanish and they had students going to UCLA, USC, the Ivies and many top ranked universities and colleges across the US.  He suggested that the Donald take a look at his graduates (including Randy Vasquez and Darwin Barahona with Leticia and José) and their parents and see if they match his notions about criminals and rapists.  He didn't go as far as to tell Trump that he is an asshole, so we will:  Donald, you're an asshole...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!

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