Monospecific Monday Surf & Culture Report

 
Lost Boys & Co...

Nothing will ruin your day as quickly as having your boat catch fire.  This morning this captain and crew (#1) were faced with just that and this is a shot of a couple of Baywatchs hosing the entire affair down.  Earlier it had been engulfed in flames that you could see from the shore and black smoke was pouring out at a great rate.  Now you'd think that with all that water around, you could handle a situation like this pretty easily, but nay nay...  Once it gets out of hand there's no place to go and if fuel is involved water just seems to splash it around...

Hazy sun this morning and 10 miles visibility, but it beats the "May Gray" we've been having.  Winds were lively out of the WSW at 5.5kts.  The sea surface had a bit of a bump to it.  The air temperature was 57.0 and the water was 62.6, which made everyone pretty happy.  High tide was at 9:33am +4.3' and low tide will be at 2:58pm +1.0'.  Later in the week there will be some a.m. minus tides for your sea glass harvesting pleasure!  We have a SSW swell out of 207º at 3.0' and that's just about what it was, with some fatter outsides...  Mr. Christian, Doc Scale and the Professor hit it on the rising tide to score a few ledgy bumps...

Our colleague and associate, Mr. Christian Stutzman (#2) (shown in regalia) graduated from San Diego State this weekend.  Our congratulations to the lad and we wish him nothing but the best in his future endeavors...  He's already a state lifeguard, champion surfer and has a hot surfer girlfriend ...  is there something else?

(#3)We waited patiently to be seated this morning, but apparently we weren't on the list...  We did have an answer to the posted question though:  Cheese.
(photo credit:  Juan Queso for the Cheddar Letter)
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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