Walk & Don't Look Back Wednesday Surf & Culture Report

 
Lost Boys & Co...

This is the celebrated Blue-Footed Booby in full dive (#1).  Unless they're standing or you're lucky, you're not going to see those blue feet since they keep them tucked under their feathers most of the time in flight...

Wait, how did the Sahara Desert get started (#2).  Well, Timbuktu used to be a pretty green place and then they had a big wind, kinda like us yesterday and there was this patch of sand in the middle of the city that just kept growing...  Right now there's about 15 miles visibility under cloudless skies. Winds were offshore by 2.2kts and the sea surface was smooth.  The air temperature was a chilly 46.3 and the water is at it's lowest point this season at 55.2.  Need more sun...  Low tide was at 5:42am -0.5' and high tide will be at 12pm +3.9'.  We have a WSW wind swell out of 254º at 4.3'.  It was a solid 3' at most spots with some ear-ticklers on the odd set...

A Big Daddy sighting at Brother's Tuesday morning...  Mr. Cohen, our attorney, has advised against photos...

On our way back to Santa Cruz from Floreana the dolphins put on quite a show (#3).  Our skipper carefully skirted the pod and we watched them for about 15minutes...

"Stay at least 3 metres away from the wildlife."  That's what the sign said.  If you don't, you run the risk of the wildlife nabbing your hat and swallowing it whole.  Somewhere there is a pelican (#4) shitting Dodger Blue on someone's boat or car...

We love seabirds of all types, but recently we've become enamored of the frigate bird (#5).  They float, swoop and dive in a way that suggests that if you were a bird that's exactly the way you'd do it...

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





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