Through The Looking Glass Thursday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

Jetski, giving the north-side a hard look...

Partly cloudy this morning with 15 miles visibility.  Winds were calm at checkout, but there was still a slight bump on the water.  The air temp was 64.4˚ and the water was 69.8˚.  Low tide was at 8:27am +1.4' and high tide will follow at 3:14pm +5.4'.  We have a hard south out of 195˚ at 3.0', but it's not making the turn, so it's 2' to 3' and a bit wally crashy...

Why we never got crazy about Lewis Carroll...

1861 | Oxford

Sea Chantey

There is an insect that people avoid
(Whence is derived the verb "to flee").
Where have you been by it most annoyed?
In lodgings by the sea.

If you like your coffee with sand for dregs,
A decided hint of salt in your tea,
And a fishy taste in the very eggs—
By all means choose the sea.

And if, with these dainties to drink and eat,
You prefer not a vestige of grass or tree,
And a chronic state of wet in your feet,
Then—I recommend the sea.

For I have friends who dwell by the coast—
Pleasant friends they are to me!
It is when I am with them I wonder most
That anyone likes the sea.

They take me a walk: though tired and stiff,
To climb the heights I madly agree;
And, after a tumble or so from the cliff,
They kindly suggest the sea.

I try the rocks, and I think it cool
That they laugh with such an excess of glee,
As I heavily slip into every pool

That skirts the cold, cold sea.

And into that sea, we have the Professor pearling up to his kneecaps and beyond...  It started out looking like it had so many possibilities...  (photos:  Bobbin' Robin Fenlon for The Daily Trombone)

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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!