Thamaturgical Thursday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

Great times in El Salvador like always, but there comes a time when you have to move on.  Rather than head back north and home with the rest of the crew, a few of us decided that we had to make the trek further south.  And this time it was Peru and the Inca Trail.  Now if you think you can just fly into Cuzco and run up the hill to Machu Picchu, you've got another think coming.  So we decided it would be prudent to spend a few days in Cuzco just to get acclimated.  Cuzco is at 11,500 and that takes a bit of acclimatization...  So we drank coca tea, slept in the first day and half of the second and finally on the second afternoon we ventured out.  #1 is a panorama of LoLa on the Plaza de Armas, the main plaza (of several) in Cuzco.  It turns out that we just happened to arrive on the feast day of St. Martin de Porres, who is one of the patrons of Cuzco.  Quite a fiesta, with the entire town turning out in fine fashion...

Despite the calendar being behind several weeks, it feels like winter.  48.7 this morning in the air and 59.9 in the water for the first sub 60's temp in ages.  12 miles visibility and partly cloudy skies.  Winds were brisk offshore at 1 to 3kts and the sea surface was smooth.  High tide was at 9:15am +5.8' and low tide follows at 4:33pm -0.2'.  We have a SW swell out of 222º at 3.3' and it was a very nice 3' to 5' with some sweet peaks going both ways...

In photo #2 we have all the 3rd grade class of St. Martin's School doing a peasant dance in front of the reviewing stand.  On the right of the reviewing stand we have the various city officials and on the left we have the good sisters of St. Martin's making sure the girls didn't spin violently enough to see any under clothing...

#3 is the 5th graders doing a rather energetic stride step to some traditional Andean pan pipe music.  You might wonder about the hats.  Every area has it's own take on millinery and every village adds something to the mix.  The traditional hats range from these stove-top numbers to stingy-brim fedoras to flat pizza-like Frisbees, decorated on the tops with village symbolism...  Almost all are felt and likewise almost all are worn by the women...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!

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