Does Anyone Stop At Stop Signs Anymore Tuesday Surf & Culture Report

 
Lost Boys & Co...

Oh, yeah...  Doesn't anyone stop at stop signs anymore?  And if not why should we?  And ESPECIALLY today on the vernal equinox!

Because we have a lot of pics we'll go for 5 this morning...  #1 features one of our favorite subjects, Capitán Donaldo, coming very close to our photographer Jerrson.  Not quite framed perfectly, but the feeling of the moment and movement is certainly there.  Check out the bits of flying foam, the crenelated wake and the Capitán's evil smirk...

10 miles visibility under cloudy, but not threatening skies.  Winds were calm and the sea surface is smooth.  The air temperature was a considerably warmer 54.5 this morning and 58.8 in the water.  Low tide was at 5:49am +0.3' and high tide will be at 11:53am +4.2'.  We have a SW swell out of 234º at 1.6' and it's 1' to almost 2' with rain almost certainly on the way for the next few days...

In photo#2 we have the crew attempting to pose for a portrait atop the cathedral of Leon, in Nicaragua.  Remember those offshore winds we told you about?  Well, in this photo you can see that those winds are trying to forcibly remove our crew from the parapets of the cathedral...  LoLa and Suzi got their hair intertwined and spent the next two hours trying to get separated...

Photo 3 looks like the start of the Makaha contest in 1963.  We have (L to R) Joey, the Capitán, Mr. Christian, the Professor and just off camera Jetski...

With a simple twist of his body carriage we have the Professor (#4) torquing into this lefthander at Chicken Urchin's...  We shouldn't make such a big deal about the urchins.  7 people were surfing and only 2 got stuck...  But at low tide if you walked along the rock reef, in every crevasse, crack and hole had an urchin hiding out.  Most of them were below the level of the rock, but if you stuck your toe in a hole, BINGO...

Joey (#5) on the Mondrian board in just the right place...

No call yet on Happy Hour.  The group is waiting for the weather forecast to be more certain...
✠
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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