Well Known Wednesday Surf & Culture Report

 
Lost Boys & Co...

Brent Broza is having a pop-up (#1) show at the old "Just Longboards."  Brent has some stellar images and this is a perfect time to get something for someone special for the holidays or just to satisfy your need to have a Broza original!

Cloudless skies and 20 miles visibility.  Winds continue to be offshore by 3 to 5kts and the sea surface is glassy.  The air temperature is 50.6 and the water is holding at 62.4.  High tide was at 6:02am +5.6' and low tide is at 12:51pm +0.5'.  We have a WSW swell out of 252º at 3.9' and it was 3' to 5' with some block long walls that were unmakeable for the most part...

(#2) Is a good example of when "one-size-fits-all" doesn't.  Now you have to discount the Professor's lid because he's got the hat under the helmet.  LoLa, obviously got the "big-girl" helmet and it almost looks like it's on backwards.  Sarah, somehow scored the only helmet that fit.  Probably because she has a normal sized head.  On the other hand, Tarzan, was forced to squeeze his generous melon into a kiddie-sized helmet.  Here we see them preparing to launch themselves through the jungle canopy on the first of eight runs of this zip-line course.  Counter intuitively, the fastest runs were the shortest rides.  On the fastest cable you get up to 40mph and your glove begins to feel the heat before you hit the next platform...  (#3 & #4)  Here we have Tarzan eschewing the vines and streaking down the cable over the alligator/turtle infested swamp.  Saw the turtles, but the alligators might have been a figment of our imagination...

Happy hour this week will be at Patrick Malloy's.  5:30pm on the patio for food, drink and good conversation...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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