Windy Wilma Wednesday Surf & Culture Report

 
Lost Boys & Co...

Here's a shot of Wilma (#1) just before she slammed into Mazatlan.  Can you imagine what Cardon was looking like?  If someone told us it was 15' we'd believe them...  Maybe even 20...

Clear skies this morning and 3 miles visibility through the marine haze.  Winds were light offshore by 1.7kts and the sea surface was smooth.  The air temperature was 60.0 and the water is a reasonable 65.1.  High tide was at 9:25am +5.9' on this full moon Wednesday and low tide will be at 3:56pm +0.2'.  We have a SW swell out of 220º at 3' even and that's about what it was, with a couple of fatter outsides in the middle...  Ask Bobby...

This son-of-a-Zamboni (#2) cleans the waters along the Golden Horn.  To tell you the truth it was doing a shitty job while we watched.  The plastic bottles it was trying to scoop kept jumping off of the conveyor belt and the other trash just floated out of arms distance.  With just a few tweaks it could be fairly effective!

This is one of those situations (#3) where you either too close or too far away to accurately depict the size and stature of an object.  In this case it's the Galata Tower, The Romanesque style tower was built as Christea Turris (Tower of Christ) in 1348 during an expansion of the Genoese colony in Constantinople. Galata Tower was the tallest building in Istanbul at 219.5 ft (66.9 m) when it was built in 1348.  It was built to replace the old Tower of Galata, an original Byzantine tower named Megalos Pyrgos (English: Great Tower) which controlled the northern end of the massive sea chain that closed the entrance to the Golden Horn. That tower was on a different site and was largely destroyed in 1203, during the Fourth Crusade of 1202–1204, which just happens to be our least favorite...

Okay, so if there's one thing you have to do when you go to Istanbul, is take a Turkish Bath.  The Cagaloglu Hamami (#4) is one of the oldest continuously running baths.  For obvious reasons we couldn't take any pics inside, but the entire place is marble, heated with hot water piped beneath the floors and benches.  For an hour and a half they treat you like royalty, while massaging, soaking and scrubbing your entire body...  The best 50 euros you'll ever spend...

#5 Why don't they just leave the damn lights on the pier?  They look cool and add a bit of panache to the whole affair...

Laurel Tavern Friday at 5:30 for food, drink and Béisbol!  Go Doyers!
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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